Background
Taylor was born in Danbury, New Hampshire, on February 22, 1877, to father Frank Leavitt Taylor and mother Nellie Jane (Martin) Taylor.
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Education
Amos Leavitt Taylor attended college at Brown, graduating in 1901 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, then moved to Boston and worked at Adams & Blinn, Counsellors at Law for the next 60 years. Their son, Amos Leavitt Taylor, Junior., also went to Brown, graduating in 1935, then attended Harvard Law School.
Career
In the winter of 1912, Taylor and Robert Goodwin represented Marjorie Newell Robb against Oceanic Steam Navigation Company for the sum of $110,400.00, together with costs from the April 15, 1912 sinking of the Titanic. Also known as Amos L. Taylor, of Belmont, Massachusetts, he was a strong Republican. Lawyer;
In 1924, he was a delegate (alternate) to the Republican National Convention from Massachusetts.
1927-1928 Secretary of Massachusetts Republican Party.
1929-1932 Massachusetts Republican state chairman In 1932 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from Massachusetts.
He was a Unitarian. In his honor, the Amos L. Taylor Award for Excellence in Scholarship was established at the New England School of Law for special part-time student which are awarded at the end of the Juris Doctor program
Burial location unknown.
Membership
Foreign twenty-five years, from 1924 to 1949, he was a member of Massachusetts Republican State Committee. He was a member of the American Bar Association, as well as Gamma Eta Gamma and the Freemasons. Taylor was one of the founders of Phi Gamma Delta at Brown University and an officer and life member of The Bostonian Society.
