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Robert Love Taylor

Franklin Club Dr. at W Elk Ave, Elizabethton, TN , USA

Latitude & Longitude: 36° 20' 38.339988", -82° 14' 59.46"
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Born in Happy Valley, Carter county, 1850: attorney; U.S. Congressman, 1879-1881; newspaper publisher; federa pension agent; Governor of Tennessee, 1887-1891, 1896-1899; lecturer; U.S. Senator, 1907 until his death in 1912; buried in Johnson City. In the gubernatorial campaign of 1886 he, a Democrat, was opposed by his brother Alfred A. Taylor, a Republican, in Tennessee's celebrated War of the Roses.

Last updated: 2/14/2015 15:17:00
 
   
 
 
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