John C. Taylor

John Clarence Taylor ( born March 2, 1890 in Honea Path, Anderson County, South Carolina, † March 25, 1983 in Anderson, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1933 and 1939 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Taylor attended the public schools of his home and the Fruitland Institute in Hendersonville (North Carolina). During World War II, he graduated from a military officer training. After a subsequent law studies at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, he was admitted to the bar in 1919. In the following years he worked in agriculture. He was also from 1920 to 1933 notary ( Register of Deeds ) in Anderson County.

Politically, Taylor was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1932 he was in the third constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1933, the successor of Frederick H. Dominick. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 three legislative periods. In 1933 there the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was passed by the 18th Amendment was repealed in 1919 again. It was about the Prohibition law. During his time in the House of Representatives, most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1938 Taylor was not nominated by his party for another term of office. In the years 1951 to 1954 and again from 1959 to 1962 he sat in the Senate of South Carolina. John Taylor spent his life in Anderson. He is also passed in March 1983 at the age of 93 years. He was buried in his birthplace of Honea Path.