Miles Taylor (July 16, 1805 – September 23, 1873) was a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
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representing the
state
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of
Louisiana
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. He served three terms as a
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. On February 5, 1861, shortly after
Louisiana seceded from the Union, Taylor resigned his seat in Congress, announcing that "the whole South would rise up to a man to resist" efforts by the Federal government to control
slavery
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.
Taylor was born in
Saratoga Springs
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, New York. He served in Congress from 1855, until Louisiana's secession from the
Union
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. He died in Saratoga Springs, New York, and was buried in the family graveyard at his plantation, Front Scattery, near
Belle Alliance, Louisiana
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History
Belle Alliance is named after the Belle Alliance Plantation located on the east b ...
. Scattery Plantation was sold in parcels and there does not seem to be any cemetery there now.
[See also ]Belle Alliance Plantation
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.
Personal life
On May 21, 1838, he married Eliza Ann Bruden, age 19 of
Mississippi
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at
Terrebonne Parish
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, Louisiana. She died in 1850. They had four children:
*John (b. 1839)
*Mary (Taylor) May (living 1891 as a widow in New Orleans}
*Thomas (c. 1843 – October 11, 1907, Cassanova
Virginia
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) who served in 8th Louisiana Regiment CSA);
*Searing (c. 1845 – February 25, 1891, Saint Emma Plantation, age 45) who served as a "special agent" for the
Confederate Government.
Notes
External links
Political GraveyardMiles Taylor photograph at Find A Grave
1805 births
1873 deaths
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana
19th-century American politicians
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