J. Alfred Taylor

James Alfred Taylor ( * September 25, 1878 in Ironton, Ohio, † June 9, 1956 in Montgomery, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1923 and 1927 he represented the sixth electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Alfred Taylor attended the public schools of his home and was then employed by a printing company in Ironton. He later moved to Alderson in West Virginia, where he went into the newspaper business. In 1905 he moved to the Fayette County (West Virginia). Between 1908 and 1911 he was a member of the National Guard of that State.

Politically, Taylor was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1916 and 1918, and from 1920 to 1922 he sat in the House of Representatives from West Virginia. In 1922 he was in the sixth district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1923 is the successor of the Republican Leonard S. Echols, whom he had defeated in the election. After a re-election in 1924, Taylor was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1927 two legislative sessions. In the 1926 elections, he was defeated by Republican Edward T. England.

After the end of his time in Congress, Taylor again worked in the newspaper business. In 1928, he competed unsuccessfully for his party's nomination for the gubernatorial elections in West Virginia. In the years 1930 to 1932 and 1936-1938, he was again in the House of Representatives of the State of which he was president from 1930 to 1932. Between 1941 and 1945 Taylor was secretary to the alcohol Commission of West Virginia. In 1946 he was elected for six years in the Board of Education in Fayette County. Alfred Taylor died on June 9, 1956 in Montgomery and was buried in Fayetteville.