Alfred Alexander Taylor, nickname Alf Taylor (August 6, 1848 – November 25, 1931), was a lawyer and politician, serving as United States Congressman from 1889–1895, and later elected the 31st Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1921 to 1923. Notably, in 1886 he lost the gubernatorial race to his younger brother Robert, a Democrat.
Alfred A. Taylor was born in the Happy Valley community of Carter County, Tennessee as the son of Emma Haynes and Nat...
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Alfred Alexander Taylor, nickname Alf Taylor (August 6, 1848 – November 25, 1931), was a lawyer and politician, serving as United States Congressman from 1889–1895, and later elected the 31st Governor of Tennessee, serving from 1921 to 1923. Notably, in 1886 he lost the gubernatorial race to his younger brother Robert, a Democrat.
Alfred A. Taylor was born in the Happy Valley community of Carter County, Tennessee as the son of Emma Haynes and Nathaniel Green Taylor, a Methodist minister and twice US Representative as a Whig from the First District. Alf grew up in a political family; his mother was the sister of Landon Carter Haynes, Democratic Speaker of the House of Tennessee and later a Confederate senator from Tennessee. Alf and his brother Robert Taylor, who both became active in politics, although for different parties, were first cousins of Nathaniel Edwin Harris, later Governor of Georgia (1915–1917).
The young Taylor attended Duffield Academy in Elizabethton, Tennessee;...
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