Caleb Newbold Taylor

Caleb Newbold Taylor ( born July 27, 1813 near Newportville, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, † November 15, 1887 ) was an American politician. Between 1867 and 1871 he represented two times the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Caleb Taylor attended the public schools of his home and worked in agriculture. He also proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. In the years 1848, 1850 and 1852, he ran unsuccessfully for Congress in each case. After the dissolution of the Whigs, he joined the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In May 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1866, Taylor was in the fifth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Martin Russell Thayer on March 4, 1867. Since he lost in 1868 to Democrat John Roberts Reading, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1869. This period was characterized by the tensions between the Republicans and President Andrew Johnson, which culminated in a narrowly failed impeachment. Caleb Taylor appealed against the outcome of the election of 1868 opposition. When this was granted, he could at April 13, 1870 John Reading displace out of the Congress and take his old seat back. Until March 3, 1871, he finished there the opened legislature.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, Taylor also engaged in the banking industry. Since 1875 until his death he was president of the Farmers' National Bank of Bucks County based in Bristol. He died on November 15, 1887 at his estate farm near Sunbury Newportville.