Biography
Taylor was born in Happy Valley, Tennessee in Carter County on December 29, 1819. He was educated in private schools and Washington College Academy near Jonesborough, Tennessee. He graduated from Princeton College in 1840, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He commenced practice in Elizabethton, Tennessee in Carter County.
A Whig, Taylor married Emma Haynes. She was the sister of the Democratic politician Landon Carter Haynes, who was elected Speaker of the Tennessee House and later a Confederate senator from Tennessee. Politically involved, the couple founded a political family: their sons Alfred, the oldest, and Robert, were each elected to Congress and as governor of Tennessee, as Republican and Democratic candidates, respectively.
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