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Oil on canvas, Caroline O. Ransom, 1900, Collection of U.S. House of Representatives |
TAYLOR, John W., a Representative from New York; born in Charlton, N.Y., March 26,
1784; received his early education at home; was graduated from Union College,
Schenectady, N.Y., in 1803; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1807 and
commenced practice in Ballston Spa, N.Y.; organized the Ballston Center
Academy; justice of the peace in 1808; member of the state assembly in 1812 and
1813; elected as a Republican to the Thirteenth Congress and reelected to the
four succeeding Congresses, elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the
Eighteenth Congress, reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and
Twentieth Congresses, and elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and
Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1813-March 3, 1833); chairman, Committee on
Elections (Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses), Committee on Revisal and
Unfinished Business (Fifteenth Congress), Committee on Elections (Sixteenth
Congress); Speaker of the House of Representatives (Sixteenth and Nineteenth
Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1832 to the Twenty-third
Congress; resumed the practice of law in Ballston Spa, N.Y.; member of the
state senate in 1840 and 1841, but resigned in consequence of a paralytic
stroke; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in 1843, and died there September 18, 1854;
interment in the Ballston Spa Village Cemetery, Ballston Spa, Saratoga County,
N.Y.
BibliographySpann, Edward K. John W. Taylor, The Reluctant Partisan,
1784-1854. Ph.D. diss., New York University, 1957; Spann, Edward K. The
Souring of Good Feelings: John W. Taylor and the Speakership Election of 1821.
New York History 41 (October 1960): 379-99.
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