Nathaniel G. Taylor
| Nathaniel Green Taylor | |
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Portrait of Taylor by Samuel Shaver
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Tennessee's 1st district |
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In office March 30, 1854 – March 3, 1855 |
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| Preceded by | Brookins Campbell |
| Succeeded by | Albert G. Watkins |
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In office July 24, 1866 – March 3, 1867 |
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| Preceded by | T.A.R. Nelson |
| Succeeded by | Roderick R. Butler |
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December 29, 1819 Happy Valley, Carter County, Tennessee |
| Died | April 1, 1887 (aged 67) Happy Valley, Carter County, Tennessee |
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Whig American Unionist |
| Spouse(s) | Emma Haynes Taylor |
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Alfred A. Taylor (son) Robert Love Taylor (son) William B. Carter (uncle) Samuel P. Carter (cousin) Landon Carter Haynes (brother-in-law) |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Profession | lawyer, farmer, preacher |
Nathaniel Green Taylor (December 29, 1819 – April 1, 1887) was an American lawyer, farmer, and politician from Tennessee. He was U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1854 to 1855, and again from 1866 to 1867, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1867 to 1869.
Taylor was born at Happy Valley in Carter County, Tennessee, the son of James Patton Taylor (1792–1833) and his wife, the former Mary Carter (1799–1840). His family was prominent in Carter County. His paternal grandfather, General Nathaniel Taylor (1771–1816), a native of Rockbridge County, Virginia, was among the area's early settlers and the county's first sheriff; he began the construction of Sabine Hill in Elizabethton. His maternal grandfather, Landon Carter (1760–1800), an American Revolutionary War veteran, was the man for whom Carter County was named.
Nathaniel Green Taylor received his education privately before entering Washington College near Jonesborough, Tennessee. He graduated from Princeton College in 1840, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841. He began his legal practice in Elizabethton, Tennessee in Carter County.
Taylor married Emmaline (Emma) Haynes (1822–1890), the sister of Democratic politician Landon Carter Haynes (Speaker of the Tennessee House and later a Confederate senator from Tennessee). Two of their six sons, Alfred A. Taylor (1848–1931) and Robert Love Taylor (1850–1912), were each elected to Congress and as governor of Tennessee, as Republican and Democratic candidates, respectively. The remaining seven children who survived both parents included sons James Patton Taylor (1844–1924), Nathaniel Winfield Taylor (1852–1904), David Haynes Taylor (1858–1890) and Hugh Lawson McClung Taylor (1859–1935), and daughters Mary Eva Taylor Jobe (1855–1916), Rhoda Emma Taylor Reeves (1855–1943), and Sanna McClung Taylor Miller (1862–1941).
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