Abner Taylor was a U.S. Representative

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 from Illinois

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Born in Bangor, Maine

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, Taylor moved with his parents to Champaign County, Ohio

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 in 1832, thence to Fort Dodge, Iowa

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, and subsequently to Chicago, Illinois in 1860. He engaged in extensive contracting, building, and mercantile pursuits, and participated in the construction of the Texas State Capitol

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. He served as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives

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 from 1884 to 1886. He served as a delegate to the 1884 Republican National Convention

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Taylor was elected as a Republican

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 to the Fifty-first

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 and Fifty-second

52nd United States Congress

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 Congresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1893). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1892. He resumed the building and contracting business. He died in Washington, D.C.

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 in 1903, and was interred in Rock Creek Cemetery

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