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69th Congress Pictorial Directory, Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives
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TAYLOR, James Alfred, a Representative from West Virginia;
born near Ironton, Lawrence County, Ohio, September 25, 1878;
attended the public schools;
employed in a printing office in Ironton, Ohio;
moved to Alderson, W.Va., and engaged in the newspaper business;
moved from Greenbrier County to Fayette County in 1905;
served as a noncommissioned officer in the West Virginia National Guard 1908-1911;
member of the State house of representatives 1916-1918, 1920-1922, 1930-1932, and 1936-1938, serving as speaker 1930-1932;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth and Sixty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1923-March 3, 1927);
was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress;
resumed the newspaper publishing business;
unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the gubernatorial nomination in 1928;
served as secretary of the West Virginia Liquor Commission 1941-1945;
elected a member of the Fayette County Board of Education in 1946 for a six-year term;
died in Montgomery, W.Va., on June 9, 1956;
interment in Huse Memorial Park, Fayetteville, W.Va.
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