James Willis "J. Will" Taylor (August 28, 1880 – November 14, 1939) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Tennessee
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.
Biography
Born near
Lead Mine Bend in
Union County, Tennessee
Union County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, its population was 19,109. Its county seat is Maynardville. Union County is included in the Knoxville metropolitan statistical area.
History
Union County ...
, Taylor was the son of James W. and Sarah Elizabeth (Rogers) Taylor. He attended the public schools, Holbrook Normal College,
Fountain City, Tennessee
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, and the
American Temperance University
American Temperance University opened in 1893 in the planned town of Harriman, Tennessee, which was developed as a community with no alcoholic beverages permitted. In its second year of operation the institution enrolled 345 students from 20 states ...
,
Harriman, Tennessee
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Harriman is included in the Knoxville, Tennessee Metropolitan Statis ...
.
Career
Taylor taught at school for several years, and was graduated from
Cumberland School of Law
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at
Cumberland University
Cumberland University is a private university in Lebanon, Tennessee. It was founded in 1842. The campus's current historic buildings were constructed between 1892 and 1896.
History
1842-1861
The university was founded by the Cumberlan ...
,
Lebanon, Tennessee
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, in 1902. He was
admitted to the bar
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the same year.
Having moved to
La Follette, Tennessee
LaFollette is a city in Campbell County, Tennessee, United States. Its population was 7,456 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, with an estimated population in 2018 of 6,737. It is the principal city of the LaFollette, Tennessee micropo ...
, Taylor commenced the practice of law. He served as postmaster at La Follette from 1904 to 1909. He was also mayor from 1910 to 1913, and in 1918 and 1919. He was Insurance commissioner for the State of Tennessee in 1913 and 1914 and chairman of the Republican State executive committee in 1917 and 1918.
Taylor generally voted with the
conservative
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side, including in his last incomplete House term.
Taylor was elected as a
Republican
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** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
to the
Sixty-sixth and to the ten succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1919, until his death.
He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (
Sixty-eighth and
Sixty-ninth Congresses). He served as member of the Republican National Executive Committee 1929–1939.
Death
Taylor died in
La Follette, Tennessee
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, on November 14, 1939 (age 59 years, 78 days). He is interred at Woodlawn Cemetery. A resolution by
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honoring Taylor was passed by the
Tennessee House of Representatives in 1941.
See also
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References
External links
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1880 births
1939 deaths
Mayors of places in Tennessee
Tennessee lawyers
People from LaFollette, Tennessee
Old Right (United States)
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Tennessee
20th-century American politicians
People from Union County, Tennessee
Tennessee postmasters
20th-century American lawyers