Glen Hearst Taylor, served from 1945 to 1951

Glen Hearst Taylor was born in Portland, Oregon, on April 12, 1904. He moved to a homestead near Kooskia, Idaho as a child and attended the public schools there. He joined a dramatic stock company in 1919 and was the owner and manager of various entertainment enterprises from 1926 until 1944. He was also a country-western singer.

He was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1940 and 1942. He ran again in 1944, and was elected as a Democrat to the Senate. He served from January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1951.He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-nomination in 1950.

He ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for Vice President of the United States on the Progressive Party ticket in 1948. He again was a unsuccessful Democratic candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1954 and unsuccessfully ran for the nomination in 1956.

He was president of Coryell Construction Co. from 1950 to 1952, and of Taylor Topper, Inc. He died in Millbrae, California, on April 28, 1984. He was buried in the Skylawn Cemetery, San Mateo, California.

Bibliography

Peterson, Frank Ross. Prophet Without Honor: Glen Taylor and the Fight for American Liberalism. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974; Taylor, Glen Hearst. The Way It Was With Me. Secaucus, N.J.: L. Stuart, 1979.

Photos provided by the Idaho State Historical Society.  Biographical information compiled by Congressional Research Service.