Background
Taylor, George Washington was born on January 16, 1849 in Montgomery Company, Alabama, United States. Son of Edward Fisher and Anne Sewell (Trezevant) Taylor.
United States representative politician
Taylor, George Washington was born on January 16, 1849 in Montgomery Company, Alabama, United States. Son of Edward Fisher and Anne Sewell (Trezevant) Taylor.
Born on "Roselawn" plantation near Montgomery, Alabama, Taylor attended private schools. Taylor graduated from the University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1867. He then taught school in Mobile, Alabama, and studied law.
While a schoolboy in Columbia, South Carolina, Taylor enlisted in the Confederate States Army in November 1864, and served until the end of the war. Taylor was admitted to the bar in Mobile, Alabama, in November 1871 and commenced practice in Butler, Alabama, in 1872. Taylor served as State solicitor for the first judicial circuit of Alabama from 1880–1892.
He declined a third term, and moved to Demopolis, Alabama, in 1883.
Taylor was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-fifth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1915). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1914, and resumed the practice of law in Demopolis, Alabama.
He served as chairman of the State Democratic convention which called the constitutional convention in 1901. Taylor was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1920.
He died in Rome, Georgia, while on a visit in that city, on December 21, 1932.
He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery, Montgomery, Alabama.
Member Alabama House of Representatives, 1878. Member 55th to 63rd Congresses (1897-1915), 1st Alabama District Chairman Democratic State Convention, 1901.
Married Margaretta Van Tuyl, daughter