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Nathaniel Green Taylor

Nathaniel Green Taylor
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Portrait of Taylor by Samuel Shaver
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Tennessee's 1st district
In office
March 30, 1854 – March 3, 1855
Preceded by Brookins Campbell
Succeeded by Albert G. Watkins
In office
July 24, 1866 – March 3, 1867
Preceded by T.A.R. Nelson
Succeeded by Roderick R. Butler
Personal details
Born (1819-12-29)December 29, 1819
Happy Valley, Carter County, Tennessee
Died April 1, 1887(1887-04-01) (aged 67)
Happy Valley, Carter County, Tennessee
Political party Whig
American
Unionist
Spouse(s) Emma Haynes Taylor
Relations Alfred A. Taylor (son)
Robert Love Taylor (son)
William B. Carter (uncle)
Samuel P. Carter (cousin)
Landon Carter Haynes (brother-in-law)
Alma mater

Washington College Academy

Princeton University
Profession lawyer, farmer, preacher
Religion Methodist

Washington College Academy

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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