- John Taber
John Taber (b.
May 5 1880 ,Auburn, New York - d.November 22 1965 ,Auburn, New York ) was an American congressman.He attended the public schools and graduated from
Yale University in 1902 and fromNew York Law School in 1904. He was admitted to the barNovember 15 1904 , and commenced practice in Auburn, New York.Taber was supervisor of
Cayuga County, New York in 1905 and 1906, special judge of the county court from 1910 to 1918, a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1920, 1924, and 1936, chairman of the Cayuga County Republican committee from 1920 to 1925, and president of the Auburn Chamber of Commerce in 1922.He represented New York in the House of Representatives as a Republican from the 68th to the 87th Congresses (
March 4 1923 –January 3 1963 ), where he was the chairman of the Committee on Appropriations during the 80th and 83rd Congresses. He was not a candidate for renomination to the 88th Congress in 1962.Taber died
November 22 1965 inAuburn, New York , aged 85. He is interred there in Fort Hill Cemetery.References
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* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7643902 John Taber at Find-A-Grave]Bibliography
"Congressman John Taber of Auburn: Politics and Federal Appropriations, 1923–1962", Cary S. Henderson, Ph.D. dissertation, Duke University, 1964.
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