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Taylor, Robert W

educator, lawyer, journalist, congressman, was born Nov. 26, 1852, in Youngstown, Ohio. In 1872 he commenced teaching in the high school in Lisbon, Ohio, and was elected superintendent of schools in 1873 and reelected in 1874. From 1875 to 1876 he was editor of the Buckeye State newspaper at Lisbon; was elected prosecuting attorney of Columbiana county in 1880; and re-elected in 1882, and served until January, 1896. He was elected to the fiftyfourth and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.

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