List of United States Political Families (T) - The Taylors of Louisiana

The Taylors of Louisiana

• Zachary Taylor (1784–1850), President of the United States 1849–1850. Father of Richard Taylor, father-in-law of Jefferson Davis.
  • Richard Taylor (1826–1879), Louisiana State Senator 1855–1861, delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention. Son of Zachary Taylor.
  • Jefferson Davis, U.S. Representative from Mississippi 1845–1846 1857–1861, U.S. Senator from Mississippi 1847–1851, candidate for Governor of Mississippi, 1851, U.S. Secretary of War 1853–1857, President of the Confederate States of America. Son-in-law of Zachary Taylor.

NOTE: Zachary Taylor was also second cousin of U.S. President James Madison, second cousin once removed of U.S. Senator Richard Henry Lee, third cousin of U.S. Attorney General Charles Lee and U.S. Representatives Henry Lee and Richard Bland Lee, granduncle of Kentucky State Senator Edmund H. Taylor, Jr., third cousin twice removed of Virginia Governor Fitzhugh Lee, first cousin thrice removed of Missouri Governor Elliot Woolfolk Major, second cousin thrice removed of Missouri Legislator Edgar Bailey Woolfolk, and an ancestor of Florida State Representative Victor Crist. Jefferson Davis was also grandson-in-law of New Jersey Governor Richard Howell and granduncle of U.S. Representative Jefferson Davis Brodhead.