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JOHN TAYLOR

John Taylor (the Water Poet) was an English poet. He was born in 1580 at Glicester and died in 1653. Apprebticed to a Thames waterman he served in the navy and was present at the siege of Cadiz in 1596 and at Flores in 1597. He returned to the Thames as a waterman before walking from London to Edinburgh in 1618. He later settled as an inn keeper in Long acre.

John Taylor (John Taylor of Caroline) was an American politician. He was born in 1750 and died in 1824. He represented Virginia in the US Senate as a Democrat from 1792 to 1794 and from 1822 to 1824. During the interval he served in the Virginia House of Delegates, where he moved the celebrated Virginia Resolutions of 1798. He wrote 'Inquiry into the Principles and Policy of the Government of the United States', 'Construction Construed and the Constitution Vindicated' and 'New Views of the Constitution of the United States', leading works of the State-rights school.

John Taylor was an American politician. He was born in 1770 and died in 1832. He was called to the bar in 1793. He was a member of the South Carolina Legislature for a number of years, represented South Carolina in the US Congress as a Democrat from 1807 to 1810, when he became a US Senator and served until 1816. He was a US Congressman from 1816 to 1817, and Governor of South Carolina from 1826 to 1828.

John Taylor was an English clergyman. He was born in 1808 and died in 1887. He went to Canada from England in 1832. He became a Mormon apostle in 1838, and succeeded to the presidency of the Mormon Church in 1877. He was indicted for polygamy in 1885.
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