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TAYLER, Robert Walker

TAYLER, Robert Walker
Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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TAYLER, Robert Walker
1852–1910

Office

Representative

State/Territory

Ohio

Party

Republican

Congress(es)

54th (1895–1897), 55th (1897–1899), 56th (1899–1901), 57th (1901–1903)

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Concise Biography

TAYLER, Robert Walker, a Representative from Ohio; born in Youngstown, Mahoning County, Ohio, November 26, 1852; attended the public schools, and was graduated from Western Reserve College, Cleveland, Ohio, in 1872; taught in the high school in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Ohio; superintendent of schools 1873-1875; editor of the Buckeye State, in New Lisbon, Ohio, 1875-1876; was admitted to the bar in April 1877 and commenced practice in East Liverpool, Columbiana County, Ohio; prosecuting attorney of Columbiana County 1880-1885; resumed the practice of law in Lisbon, Ohio; moved to New York in 1890; returned to Lisbon in 1892; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fourth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1895-March 3, 1903); chairman, Committee on Elections No. 1 (Fifty-fifth through Fifty-seventh Congresses); declined to be a candidate in 1902 for renomination; resumed the practice of law in Youngstown, Ohio; appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to be United States district judge for the northern district of Ohio February 2, 1905; moved to Cleveland, Ohio, and died there November 25, 1910; interment in Lisbon Cemetery, Lisbon, Ohio.

View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

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External Research Collections

Western Reserve Historical Society

Cleveland, OH
Papers: In the Cleveland (Ohio) City Council Records, January 20-December 18, 1909; 2.4 linear feet. The collection includes material related to the “Tayler Grant” franchise agreement between the Cleveland Electric Railway Co. and the city, which Tayler arbitrated (1910). A finding aid is available in the repository.
Papers: In the Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority Records, 1848-1958; 11.1 linear feet. The collection includes material related to the “Tayler Grant” franchise agreement between the Cleveland Electric Railway Co. and the city, which Tayler arbitrated (1910). A finding aid is available in the repository.
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Bibliography / Further Reading

Tayler, Robert Walker. Immigration bill. Speech of Hon. Robert W. Tayler, of Ohio, in the House of Representatives, Wednesday, January 27, 1897. Washington: [Government Printing Office], 1897.

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