Alexander Wilson Taylor

Alexander Wilson Taylor ( born March 22, 1815 in Indiana, Indiana County, Pennsylvania, † May 7, 1893 ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alexander Taylor received a good basic education. He attended the Indiana Academy in his hometown and then the Jefferson College in Canonsburg. After a subsequent law school in Carlisle and his 1841 was admitted to the bar he began to work in his native Indiana in this profession. From 1845 to 1848 he was bailiff at the city's District Court. Later he hit as a member of the Republican Party also a political career. In the years 1859 and 1860 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1872 Taylor was the 21st electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Henry Donnel Foster on March 4, 1873. Until March 3, 1875, he was able to complete a term in Congress. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Alexander Taylor practiced as a lawyer again. He died on 7 May 1893 in Indiana.