Vincent Albert Taylor was a soldier, businessman, and single-term U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Ohio

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Biography

Born in Bedford, Ohio

Bedford, Ohio

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, Taylor attended the common schools.

During the American Civil War

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, he enlisted in May 1864 in Company H, One Hundred and Fiftieth Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry

150th Ohio Infantry

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, a Hundred Days Regiment

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. In August of the same year, he enrolled in Company H, One Hundred and Seventy-seventh Regiment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry

177th Ohio Infantry

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 and served until the close of the war.

After mustering out of the service, he returned to Bedford and engaged in manufacturing pursuits. He served as member of the Ohio Senate

Ohio Senate

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 1888-1890.

Taylor was elected as a Republican

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 to the Fifty-second

52nd United States Congress

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Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1892.

He served as president of the Taylor Chair Company in Bedford until his death there December 2, 1922. Taylor was interred in Bedford Cemetery.