William P. Taulbee

William Preston Taulbee (* October 22, 1851 in Mount Sterling, Morgan County, Kentucky, † March 11, 1890 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1885 and 1889 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Taulbee attended the public schools of his home. At the same time he was also taught by his father. After that, he was ordained a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In the years 1878 and 1882 he was elected bailiff at the District Court in Magoffin County. After a simultaneous study of law, he was admitted in 1881 as a lawyer.

Politically, Taulbee joined the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1884 he was in the tenth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Republican John D. White on March 4, 1885. After a re-election in 1886 he was able to complete in Congress until March 4th, 1889 two legislative sessions.

In 1888 Taulbee renounced another candidacy. During his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, there was a feud between him and the journalist Charles Kincaid, in which concerned alleged relations between Taulbee and a married 18 -year-old employees of the Patent Office. The dispute between the two men escalated after Taulbees resignation from Congress on. He remained in Washington to control Kincaid activities. He was shot dead on March 11, 1890 on the eastern staircase of the Capitol from Kincaid. This made ​​later claimed self-defense and was acquitted in 1891. William Taulbee was buried in the family cemetery near Mount Sterling.