R. S. Taylor was a post Reconstruction era politician in North Carolina who served in the North Carolina Senate from 1885 to 1888 representing Edgecombe County.[1][2]
R. S. Taylor | |
|---|---|
 Taylor (c. 1887) | |
| Member of the North Carolina Senate | |
| In office 1885–1888 | |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Republican (while serving) |
He became a justice of the peace September 1, 1873.[3]
He was a Democrat and served as the liberal executive committee chairman for Edgecombe in 1882.[4] However by 1884 when he was listed as a Republican[5] and was a speaker at republican meetings in Edgecombe.[6]
Taylor was first elected to the senate in 1885 serving the 5th district for Edgecombe as a republican.[7] He was one of two black senators in the 1885 session along with George Henry White.[8] He was described at the time in The Tarborough Southerner as a Jamaican carpetbagger.[9] He was elected for a second term to serve 1887 and 1888.[10] In March 1887 he gave a speech on disfranchisement and put forward a bill to address the issue.[11]
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edit- ^ Work, Monroe N. (January 1920). "Some Negro Members of Reconstruction Conventions and Legislatures and of Congress" (PDF). The Journal of Negro History. 5 (1): 75-79. Retrieved July 27, 2024 – via JSTOR.
- ^ "Negroes in State Legislature". The Charlotte Observer. 18 August 1929. p. 36. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ State, North Carolina Secretary of (1874). The Legislative Manual and Political Register of the State of North Carolina: For the Year 1874 ... J. Turner, jr., state printer. p. 222. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Edgecombe Democracy". The Tarborough Southerner. 14 September 1882. p. 3. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Republican Convention". The News and Observer. 3 May 1884. p. 1. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Republican Mass Meeting in Edgecombe". Weekly State Journal. 4 June 1884. p. 3. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "The General Assembly". The News and Observer. 2 January 1885. p. 4. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ Reid, George W. (1974). A Biography of George H. White, 1852-1918. Howard University. pp. 74–75. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "R. S. Taylor". The Tarborough Southerner. 26 February 1885. p. 2. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "N. C. Legislature". The Charlotte Observer. 6 January 1887. p. 3. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
- ^ "Disfranchisement - Speech of Senator R. S. Taylor". The Raleigh Signal. 17 March 1887. p. 1. Retrieved 27 July 2024.
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