Joseph D. Taylor

Joseph Danner Taylor (November 7, 1830 - September 19, 1899) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

Born in Goshen Township, Clermont County, Ohio, Taylor attended the common schools and Madison College at Antrim.He taught school 1854-1856, and was principal of the Fairview High School in 1857.He studied law in Cincinnati, Ohio, and was admitted to the bar in 1859.He was graduated from the Cincinnati Law College in 1860 and commenced practice in Cambridge, Ohio, the same year.He was owner of the Guernsey "Times" 1861-1871.

During the Civil War entered the Union Army as a captain in the Eighty-eighth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry.

He was judge advocate of the Department of Indiana in 1863 and 1864. Citizen judge advocate in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1865.He served as prosecuting attorney of Guernsey County, Ohio from 1863 to 1866.He served as delegate to the Philadelphia Loyalist Convention in 1866.He served as member of the Cambridge School Board 1870-1877.He served as delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1876 and 1880.

Taylor was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Jonathan T. Updegraff.He was reelected to the Forty-eighth Congress and served from January 2, 1883, to March 3, 1885.He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1884 to the Forty-ninth Congress.

Taylor was elected to the Fiftieth, Fifty-first, and Fifty-second Congresses (March 4, 1887-March 3, 1893).He died in Cambridge, Ohio, September 19, 1899.He was interred in the South Cemetery.

ource