Walter Nesbit Taylor | |
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Member of the Mississippi Senate from the 12th district | |
In office January 1924 –January 1936 | |
Preceded by | Elwood Kirby Middleton (Hinds) |
Personal details | |
Born | Montgomery County,MS | January 23,1874
Died | November 27,1956 82) Jackson,Hinds County,MS | (aged
Political party | Democrat |
Children | 3 |
Walter Nesbit Taylor (January 23,1874 - November 27,1956) was an American educator and a Mississippi state senator,representing the state's 12th district as a Democrat,from 1924 to 1936.
Walter Nesbit Taylor was born on January 23,1874,near Lodi,Montgomery County,Mississippi. [1] [2] [3] He was the son of William Prevatte Taylor,and Wilmoth Ann "Annie" (Hurt) Taylor. [2] [3] He received a B. S. degree from Mississippi College in 1897. [2] [4] He also received his M. A. from there in 1898. [2] [4] He then served as the principal of their preparatory department from 1899 to 1903. [2] [4] He was a high school principal in Florence,Mississippi,from 1905 to 1909. [2] From 1910 to 1915,he was the superintendent of the Montgomery County agricultural high schools,and from 1915 to 1921,he was the superintendent of the Hinds County agricultural high schools. [2] In 1921,he became the executive secretary of the Mississippi Education Association. [2] [5] He was a member of the Mississippi State Senate,one of the three senators representing Hinds and Warren counties in the 12th district,from 1924 until 1936. [2] [6] [7] [8] [9] [3] In 1940,he co-edited a 4-volume book on the history of the state of Mississippi. [10] [2] He was the Secretary of the State Teachers Retirement System from 1944 until his retirement in 1953. [11] He died in the Baptist Hospital in Jackson,Mississippi,on November 27,1956. [2] [12]
Taylor was a Democrat. [13] He married Lois Fuller,who survived him after his death,in 1898. [13] [12] They had three children,a son and two daughters. [12] Taylor's cousin was Mississippi state treasurer John Peroutt Taylor. [12]
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