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Senate Years of Service: 1945-1951 Party: Democrat
TAYLOR, Glen Hearst, a Senator from Idaho; born in Portland, Oreg., April 12, 1904; moved
to a homestead near Kooskia, Idaho, as a child; attended the public schools of
Idaho; joined a dramatic stock company in 1919; owner and manager of various
entertainment enterprises 1926-1944; country-western singer; unsuccessful
Democratic candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1940 and 1942;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1944 and served from
January 3, 1945, to January 3, 1951; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in
1950; unsuccessful candidate for Vice President of the United States on the
Progressive Party ticket in 1948; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for
election to the United States Senate in 1954 and for the nomination in 1956;
president of Coryell Construction Co. 1950-1952, and of Taylor Topper, Inc.;
died in Millbrae, Calif., April 28, 1984; interment in Skylawn Cemetery (now
Skylawn Memorial Park), San Mateo, Calif.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography;
Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives; Peterson, Frank Ross.
Prophet Without Honor: Glen Taylor and the Fight for American
Liberalism. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1974; Taylor,
Glen Hearst.
The Way It Was With Me. Secaucus, N.J.: L. Stuart, 1979.
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