Career
Tauzer served in the United States Army during World War I. In the 1920s, he was a football, basketball and sports coach at Santa Rosa Junior College. He moved to Santa Rosa, California in 1923 to join a law practice. He had just graduated from Stanford Law School where he had been student body president and captain of the basketball team
He filled a seat vacated by the death of Herbert Slater.
Tauzer died one year later. Suffering a heart attack in San Francisco at the age of 51.