Donald S. Taylor
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Donald S. Taylor (June 17, 1898 – June 23, 1970) served as a judge of the New York Supreme Court and Appellate Division for 20 years, and came from a family with a long history of public service to New York State.[1]
Taylor was born on June 17, 1898, in Troy, NY, and attended Colgate University, Hamilton, N.Y. (Class of 1919), where he was a member of Theta Chi, and Albany Law School of Union University, Schenectady, N.Y., (Class of 1922).
Taylor began practicing law with his father, John P. Taylor, a former District Attorney of Rensselaer County. Taylor and his father and brother, later U.S. Congressman, Dean P. Taylor, formed the law firm of Taylor & Taylor, later Wager, Taylor, Howd & LeForestier in Troy, New York. After Taylor's withdrawal from active practice the firm continued with his son John P. Taylor as Wager, Taylor, Howd & Brearton.
Taylor was first elected to the Supreme Court in 1948. On March 1, 1961, Gov. Nelson Rockefeller appointed Taylor to the [1], and he was reelected in 1962 and served until retirement in 1968. He died on June 23, 1970, and is interred with his brother in Oakwood Cemetery, Troy, N.Y.
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- Albany Law School alumni
- Colgate University alumni
- 1898 births
- 1970 deaths
- New York Supreme Court Justices
- 20th-century American judges
- Burials at Oakwood Cemetery (Troy, New York)