John Taylor (South Carolina governor)

John Taylor ( born May 4, 1770 in Granby, South Carolina, † April 16, 1832 in Camden, South Carolina ) was an American politician and Governor of South Carolina.

Rise in South Carolina

John Taylor studied at Mount Zion Institute in Columbia in 1790 and got his degree at Princeton College, then he became a lawyer. In the years 1796-1802 he was in the House of Representatives from South Carolina active and again a year in the period 1804-1805. In 1807 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the United States. This mandate he held until 1810, when he took over the seat of Thomas Sumter in the United States Senate. In 1811 he was elected for a full term of office. As a senator, he was a very convincing personality. After the time in the Senate, he founded a foundation that is known as the Taylor Foundation today. Taylor returned after he gave up some offices, 1816 South Carolina back. In the years 1818-1826 he was there at the State Senate. In 1826 he was elected Governor of South Carolina.

Governor of South Carolina

John Taylor went to the office of Governor on December 1, 1826. In the two years of his term until December 1828, the resistance grew up in South Carolina against imposed by the federal government protective tariffs. The discussion of this question was the Nullifikationsfrage back new food and led to a serious crisis between the Federal Government under President Andrew Jackson and South Carolina, which at that time even considered withdrawing from the Union a few years later (1832 ). It was about the question of whether a single state in the U.S., in this case, South Carolina, has the right unilaterally to set federal laws overridden if they were harming the interests of the individual state. As governor, Taylor took care to improve the infrastructure of his country. The transport system was expanded and the first railway company was founded, although the operation of the train had to wait a few years away. The aim of the measure was to connect some cities in the hinterland with Charleston on the coast.

Further CV

According to the Constitution of South Carolina Taylor was not allowed to run again in 1828. Therefore, he resigned from his office on December 1, 1828. In addition to some administrative duties, he was also curator of the University of South Carolina, also still director of the Columbia Theological Seminary. John Taylor was related both to President James Madison as well as with President Zachary Taylor.

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