"Ohio Secretary of State" Samuel McIntire Taylor Hand Signed TLS Dated 1895

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Up for auction "Ohio Secretary of State" Samuel McIntire Taylor Signed TLS Dated 1895.
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Samuel McIntire Taylor
was a
Republican
politician in the
Ohio House of Representatives
and
Ohio Secretary of State
from 1893-1897. Samuel Taylor was born July 24, 1856 in
Champaign County, Ohio
. He attended country schools and graduated from
Ohio Wesleyan University
in 1882, where he was
Phi Gamma Delta
, and the
Cincinnati Law School
, where he graduated in 1884. He located in
Urbana, Ohio
, where he practiced. He was elected in 1887 to represent Champaign County in the 68th General Assembly, and re-elected 1889 and 1891 to the 69th and 70th, from which he resigned. He resigned when elected in 1892 to Ohio Secretary of State, and then was re-elected in 1894.After leaving office in 1897, Taylor was appointed
consul
to
Glasgow, Scotland
by President
McKinley
. He was transferred to
Callao, Peru
in 1906, and served there until 1910. He was appointed consul to
Birmingham, England
in 1913, and served there until his death from influenza in that city, December 7, 1916. He was buried at Oak Dale Cemetery in Urbana.