Political Figures
- William Taylor (congressman) (1788–1846), U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- William Taylor (New York) (1791–1865), U.S. Congressman from New York
- Sir William Taylor, 1st Baronet (1902–1972), British Conservative Member of Parliament, 1950–1964
- William B. Taylor (engineer) (1824–1895), American civil engineer and surveyor in New York
- William B. Taylor, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine
- William Benajah Taylor (1794–c. 1853), merchant and politician in Nova Scotia
- Reverend William Benjamin Taylor (1852-1933), reverend who served churches in Montana, Ohio and Kentucky
- William Benjamin Taylor, British Member of Parliament for South West Norfolk, 1929–1931
- William Henry Taylor (politician) (1848–1916), Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario
- William Horace Taylor (1889–1986), Canadian politician
- William L. Taylor (1931–2010), attorney and civil rights activist who served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights
- William P. Taylor, U.S. Congressman from Virginia
- William Robert Taylor (1820–1909), governor of the U.S. state of Wisconsin
- William S. Taylor (politician) (1795–1858), member of the Alabama, Mississippi, and Texas state legislatures, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives
- William S. Taylor (1853–1928), Kentucky attorney general and governor; indicted for conspiracy to assassinate the succeeding governor
- William Waring Taylor (1819–1903), New Zealand politician
- William Taylor (d. 1834) (c. 1789–1834), businessman and political figure in New Brunswick
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