R. S. Taylor | |
|---|---|
 Taylor (c. 1887) | |
| Member of the North Carolina Senate | |
| In office 1885–1888 | |
| Personal details | |
| Political party | Republican (while serving) |
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]
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]
