John W. Taylor (November 22, 1935 – April 21, 2020) was an American politician and businessman. He was born in

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, and served in the

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. He received his bachelor's degree from

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a public land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricultural College and Model Farm, Iowa State became one of the n ...

. He lived in

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and was involved in the coal mining and real estate businesses.Votesmarts.org.-Jack Taylor
/ref> Taylor served as a member of the

Colorado House of Representatives The Colorado House of Representatives is the lower house of the Colorado General Assembly, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Colorado. The House is composed of 65 members from an equal number of constituent districts, with each distr ...

from 1992 to 2000 and the

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from 2000 to 2008 and was a

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. Taylor died from

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on April 21, 2020, at Casey's Pond Living Facility in Steamboat Springs,

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, during the

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. He was 84.

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