John Peroutt Taylor

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John Peroutt Taylor
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32nd State Treasurer of Mississippi
In office
January 17, 1916 – January 19, 1920
Member of the Mississippi Senate
from the 26th district
In office
January 1912 – January 17, 1916
Succeeded by
Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
from the Montgomery County district
In office
1892–1906
Personal details
Born1855 (1855)
Carroll County, MS
DiedSeptember 5, 1930(1930-09-05) (aged 74–75)
Winona, MS
Political partyDemocrat

John Peroutt Taylor (1855 - September 5, 1930), also known as John Pervatt Taylor,[1] was a Democratic Mississippi politician and legislator who was the state treasurer of Mississippi from 1916 to 1920.

Biography[]

John Peroutt Taylor was born in the year 1855,[2] in Carroll County, Mississippi.[3][4] He was the son of Benjamin B. and Elizabeth Frances Taylor.[4] He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a medical degree in 1881 and started practicing medicine.[3][4] He was also a farmer.[2] He was elected to represent Montgomery County as a Democrat in the Mississippi House of Representatives in November 1891.[4][3][2] He served there from 1892 to 1906.[4] He was elected to the Mississippi State Senate in 1911, representing the 26th District, which composed of Carroll and Montgomery Counties.[4] In 1915, he was elected the state treasurer of Mississippi.[3] He served in this position from January 17, 1916 to January 19, 1920.[5][6][7] He died on September 5, 1930, in Winona, Mississippi.[8]

Personal life[]

Taylor was a devout Baptist.[3] He never married.[8] His cousin, Walter Nesbit Taylor, was also a Mississippi state senator.[8]

References[]

  1. ^ Alumni Directory ... Vanderbilt University. 1923. p. 487.
  2. ^ a b c Mississippi (1900). Department Reports. p. 92.
  3. ^ a b c d e Mississippi Department of Archives and History (1917). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. p. 506.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Mississippi Department of Archives and History (1912). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. p. 384.
  5. ^ https://www.sos.ms.gov/content/documents/ed_pubs/pubs/BlueBook16-20/16%20Historical%20and%20Statistical%20Info%20Section%20707-738.pdf
  6. ^ The Commercial and Financial Chronicle. National News Service. 1917. p. 134.
  7. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1924). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History.
  8. ^ a b c "Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi on September 6, 1930 · Page 1". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2021-03-25.
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