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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | J. Alfred Taylor |
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Fayetteville, West Virginia , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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September 25, 1878
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| Died | June 09, 1956
(77 years)
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| Contributor | Thomas Walker |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | 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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