John Taylor (d. July 12, 1821) was a

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from

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. His birth date is unknown. Taylor was a member of the

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, 1802–1805. He was elected as a Republican to the

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(March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817) but was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the

Fifteenth Congress The 15th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. It met in the Old Brick Capitol in Washingto ...

in 1816 and for election to the

Seventeenth Congress The 17th United States Congress was a meeting of the legislative branch of the United States federal government, consisting of the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives. While its term was officially March 4, 1821, t ...

in 1820. After his time in Congress he served as receiver of public monies at Cahawba, Alabama. He died on July 12, 1821 in Cahawba. He married Mary Margaret Smith, the daughter of South Carolina Senator

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. Their daughter, Mary Margaret Smith Taylor, married journalist and planter

Meredith Calhoun Meredith Calhoun (c. 1805 – March 14, 1869) was an American landowner and Slavery in the United States, slaveholder, known for owning some of the largest plantations in the Red River of the South, Red River area north of Alexandria, Louisiana. ...

.The O'Shaughnessy Legacy in Huntsville by Nancy Rohr
''The Huntsville Historical Review'' Volume 21 No. 2, Summer-Fall 1994.

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Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives 19th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly Year of death missing 1821 deaths {{SouthCarolina-politician-stub