William Taylor (New York)

William Taylor ( born October 12, 1791 in Suffield, Connecticut, † September 16, 1865 in Manlius, New York) was an American physician and politician. Between 1833 and 1839 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Taylor was born about eight years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Hartford County. The family moved to Onondaga County. There he attended public schools. He studied medicine and then practiced as a doctor. Politically, he was a member at the time of the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1832 for the 23rd Congress Taylor was the 23rd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Freeborn G. Jewett on March 4, 1833. He was re-elected twice in a row. In the congressional elections of 1836, however, he took up for the Democratic Party. He then retired after March 3, 1839, from from the Congress. During his last term, he presided over the Committee on Invalid Pensions. After his conference time he went back to his work after a doctor. He sat in 1841 and 1842 in the New York State Assembly. In 1846 he participated in the Constituent Assembly of New York as a delegate. He died about three months after the end of the civil war in Manlius. His body was then buried in the Christ Church Cemetery.