John J. Taylor

John James Taylor ( * April 27, 1808 in Leominster, Massachusetts, † July 1, 1892 in Owego, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. From 1853 to 1855 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John James Taylor was born about four years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Worcester County. He attended community schools, the New Ipswich Academy and the Groton Academy. In 1829, he graduated from Harvard University. Taylor taught for a short time as a teacher. In 1830 he moved to Troy. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1834, he began practicing in Greene in Chenango County. In 1834 he moved to Owego. There he continued to work as a lawyer. In 1838 he was appointed district attorney in Tioga County - a post he held until his retirement in 1843. He sat in 1839, 1843 and 1848 in the Village Board of Trustees. In 1844 he was the first fire chief. He took 1846 on the Constituent Assembly of New York. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In 1850 he ran unsuccessfully for the 32th Congress. In the congressional elections of 1852 for the 33rd Congress he was on the 27th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William A. Sackett on March 4, 1853. He then retired after March 3, 1855 from the Congress.

After his conference time he went back to his work as a lawyer after. President Franklin Pierce offered him the post of Commissioner for the settlement of the north-western border of the United States, however, refused this offer from Taylor. In 1858, he ran unsuccessfully as a Democrat for the office of Lieutenant Governor of New York. He was 1859 President of the Village of Owego. He also went to banking transactions. Taylor was elected vice president and later elected President of the Southern Central Railway Company, later the Auburn area of ​​the Lehigh Valley Railroad Company. He died on 1 July 1892 in Owego, and was then buried in the Evergreen Cemetery.