Telford Taylor
| Telford Taylor | |
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General Taylor addressing the court during a session of the Nuremberg Trials
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| Born |
February 24, 1908 Schenectady, New York |
| Died | May 23, 1998 (aged 90) Manhattan, New York |
| Place of burial | Morningside Cemetery Gaylordsville, Connecticut |
| Allegiance |
 United States of America
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| Service/branch |
 United States Army
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| Years of service | 1942–1949 |
| Rank |
 Brigadier General
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| Service number | 0-918566 |
| Battles/wars | World War II |
| Awards | Distinguished Service Medal |
| Other work | Lawyer, college professor |
Telford Taylor (February 24, 1908 – May 23, 1998) was an American lawyer best known for his role in the Counsel for the Prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials after World War II, his opposition to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, and his outspoken criticism of U.S. actions during the Vietnam War in the 1960s and 1970s.
Taylor was born in Schenectady, New York; his parents were John Bellamy Taylor (a relative of Edward Bellamy) and Marcia Estabrook Jones. He attended Williams College in Massachusetts before enrolling at the Harvard Law School in 1928, where he received his law degree in 1932. He subsequently worked for several government agencies, becoming the general counsel for the Federal Communications Commission in 1940.
Following the outbreak of World War II, Taylor joined Army Intelligence as a Major on October 5, 1942, leading the group that was responsible for analyzing information obtained from intercepted German communications using ULTRA encryption. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1943 and visited Bletchley Park in England, where he helped negotiate the 1943 BRUSA Agreement. He was promoted to full Colonel in 1944, and was assigned to the team of Robert H. Jackson, which helped work out the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal (IMT), the legal basis for the Nuremberg Trials.
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