Early Years
A seventh-generation Texan, Taylor was born in Dallas. He grew up in Midland, Texas, where he attended the Hillander School and San Jacinto Junior High School. He subsequently graduated in three years from Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from which he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in history.
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