Representative John H. Taylor View All Years

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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 7/10/1953
Birth Place: Kingward, West Virginia
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
Senate: 35 (1913) - 36 (1915)
House: 46 (1935)
Home County: Van Buren
Mahaska
John H. Taylor
Mahaska County
Representative from Mahaska county, was born July 15, 1870, in Preston county, West Virginia, and was educated in public schools and institutions of higher learning of the state of West Virginia. Taught school for seven years; was a minister of the Methodist church for fifteen years; editor of newspaper for eighteen years; served as member of school board, and mayor of New Sharon, Iowa, and was postmaster of New Sharon for twelve years, from 1922 to 1934. Served in the senate of Iowa in the thirty-fifth and thirty-sixth general assemblies, from the second district of Iowa, comprising Van Buren and Jefferson counties. Elected a representative November 6, 1934. A republican.
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