Nathaniel Green Taylor
Nathaniel Green Taylor | |
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Thomas Amos Rogers Nelson | |
Succeeded by | Roderick R. Butler |
In office March 30, 1854 – March 3, 1855 | |
Preceded by | Brookins Campbell |
Succeeded by | Albert Galiton Watkins |
Personal details | |
Born | Happy Valley, Carter County, Tennessee, U.S. | December 29, 1819
Died | April 1, 1887 Happy Valley, Carter County, Tennessee, U.S. | (aged 67)
Political party | Whig American Unionist |
Spouse | Emma Haynes Taylor |
Relations | Alfred A. Taylor (son) Robert Love Taylor (son) William B. Carter (uncle) Samuel P. Carter (cousin) Landon Carter Haynes (brother-in-law) |
Alma mater | Washington College Academy Princeton University |
Profession | lawyer, farmer, preacher |
Nathaniel Green Taylor (December 29, 1819 – April 1, 1887) was an American lawyer, farmer, and politician from Tennessee. He was U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1854 to 1855, and again from 1866 to 1867, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1867 to 1869.
Early life and family
Taylor was born at
Nathaniel Green Taylor received his education privately before entering
Taylor married Emmaline (Emma) Haynes (1822–1890), the sister of Democratic politician Landon Carter Haynes (Speaker of the Tennessee House and later a Confederate senator from Tennessee). Two of their six sons, Alfred A. Taylor (1848–1931) and Robert Love Taylor (1850–1912), were each elected to Congress and as governor of Tennessee, as Republican and Democratic candidates, respectively.[3] The remaining seven children who survived both parents included sons James Patton Taylor (1844–1924), Nathaniel Winfield Taylor (1852–1904), David Haynes Taylor (1858–1890) and Hugh Lawson McClung Taylor (1859–1935), and daughters Mary Eva Taylor Jobe (1855–1916), Rhoda Emma Taylor Reeves (1855–1943), and Sanna McClung Taylor Miller (1862–1941).
Political Career
In 1849, Nathaniel G. Taylor was a candidate for election to the U.S. House of Representatives in the Tennessee First U.S. House, eventually losing the general election to Democrat Andrew Johnson of Greene County.[5]
In 1853, Taylor was one of two Whig candidates for U.S. Representative in Tennessee's 1st congressional district. He lost to Democrat Brookins Campbell, by only 138 votes out of 14,900 cast in a three-way race. (3,988 votes went to rival Whig Albert Watkins, incumbent Representative from the 2nd district, who had been moved to the 1st district by reapportionment.)[6]
Campbell never qualified to take his seat in Congress, and died on December 25, 1853. A special election was held in 1854 to fill the remainder of the term. Taylor won, and served in the
In 1860, Taylor served as a
During the Civil War, Taylor adhered to the Union cause despite Tennessee's joining the Confederacy. He joined a group to assist pro-Union residents of east Tennessee under Confederate rule, and also lectured on their behalf throughout the northeastern U.S.[3]
Tennessee was readmitted to representation in Congress in 1866. Taylor was again elected Representative from the 1st district, this time as a
Taylor did not run for re-election in 1867. Instead, Johnson, now President, appointed Taylor
Upon retiring on April 21, 1869, Taylor returned to Tennessee and devoted himself to farming and preaching in Carter County.
In 1886, when his sons Alfred and Robert ran for governor on the Republican and Democratic tickets, respectively, the
Death
Taylor died in Happy Valley, Tennessee on April 1, 1887, and is interred alongside other family members within the Old Taylor Cemetery that is, itself, landlocked within private property and located off Sylvan Hill Road in Elizabethton, Tennessee.[10][3]
References
- ^ Paul Deresco Augsburg, Bob and Alf Taylor: Their Lives and Lectures (Morristown, Tenn.: Morristown Book Company, 1925), p. 17.
- ^ W. Calvin Dickenson, "Landon Carter," Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Retrieved: 6 February 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f g h United States Congress. "Nathaniel Green Taylor (id: T000095)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ^ "Congress slaveowners", The Washington Post, 2022-01-13, retrieved 2022-07-05
- ^ https://archive.org/details/notablemenoftenn00temp/page/201/mode/1up?q=Nathaniel+Green+Taylor&view=theater "Notable Men of Tennessee, From 1833 to 1875, Their Times and Their Contemporaries" by Oliver Perry and Mary B. Temple (1912).
- ^ ISBN 0-87187-339-7.
- ^ "Nathaniel Green Taylor". Govtrack US Congress. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
- ^ A.A. Taylor, "MEDICINE LODGE PEACE COUNCIL" Archived 2010-12-30 at the Wayback Machine, Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 2, No. 2, June 1924, accessed 21 January 2011
- ^ Paul Deresco Augsburg, Bob and Alf Taylor: Their Lives and Lectures (Morristown, Tenn.: Morristown Book Company, 1925), p. 50.
- ^ "Nathaniel Green Taylor". The Political Graveyard. Retrieved 1 April 2013.
External links
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