Photograph of J. Will Taylor
This oversized profile portrait of J. Will Taylor is inscribed "To my good friend H. B. Brown, Atty, with my best wishes always - Sept. 30, 1927 -- J. Will Taylor."
Dates
- 1927 September 30
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Extent
0.1 Linear Feet (1 folder)
Abstract
This oversized profile portrait of J. Will Taylor is inscribed "To my good friend H. B. Brown, Atty, with my best wishes always - Sept. 30, 1927 -- J. Will Taylor."
Biographical/Historical Note
James Willis Taylor was born to James W. and Sarah Elizabeth (Rogers) Taylor near Lead Mine Bend, Tennessee on August 28, 1880. After studying at Holbrook Normal College in Fountain City and at the American Temperance University in Harriman, Taylor taught school for several years before graduating from Cumberland University's Law department in 1902. He was admitted to the Bar in the same year and settled in La Follette, Tennessee. He married Mossie Kinkaid (1883-1957) on October 4, 1905, and the couple had two daughters, Elizabeth Kinkaid (Taylor) O'Brien (1906-1972) and Katheryne L. (Taylor) Taylor (1917-1994). In addition to his legal career, Taylor served as La Follette's Postmaster (1904-1909) and Mayor (1901-1913, 1918-1919), as the Insurance Commissioner for the State of Tennessee (1913-1914), and as the Chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee (1917-1918) before being elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Republican in 1919. He was elected to ten successive terms, the last of which ended with his death in La Follette, Tennessee on November 14, 1939.
Arrangement
This collection consists of a single folder.
Repository Details
Part of the Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Repository