Edward T. Taylor

Edward Thomas Taylor ( * June 19, 1858 in Metamora, Illinois, † September 3, 1941 in Denver, Colorado ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1913 he represented the third and 1913-1941 the fourth electoral district of the state of Colorado in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Taylor was born on a farm in Woodford County. He attended the public schools in Illinois and Kansas. After a move to Leadville in Colorado, he was in the years 1881 and 1882 teacher at the local high school. After studying law at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and its made ​​in 1884 admitted to the bar he began in Leadville to work in this profession. In 1884 he was in the Lake County School Board, 1885 he was appointed deputy district attorney.

In 1887, Taylor moved to Glenwood Springs. Between 1887 and 1889 he was a prosecutor in the Ninth Judicial District of Colorado. He was a member of the Democratic Party and sat from 1896 to 1908 in the Senate from Colorado. In the congressional elections of 1908 he was elected to succeed George W. Cook in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he represented between 4 March 1909 and 3 March 1913 in two legislative sessions the third electoral district of Colorado. In the 1912 elections, he ran fourth in the newly created district, which he took after 14 re- elections until his death in 1941 at the Congress. During this time, he was from 1917 to 1919 Chairman of the Water Rights Committee and from 1937 to 1941 a member of the Budget Committee. Edward Taylor died as the incumbent congressman in 1941. According to a by-election from his position fell to the Republican Robert F. Rockwell.

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