Robert Love Taylor (December 20, 1899 – July 11, 1987) was a
United States district judge
The United States district courts are the trial courts of the United States federal judiciary, U.S. federal judiciary. There is one district court for each United States federal judicial district, federal judicial district, which each cover o ...
of the
.
Education and career
Born in
Embreeville,
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
, Taylor was the son of longtime Tennessee politician
Alfred A. Taylor
Alfred Alexander Taylor (August 6, 1848 – November 25, 1931), known as Alf Taylor, was an American politician and lecturer from eastern Tennessee. He served as the 34th governor of Tennessee from 1921 to 1923, one of three Republican Party (Unit ...
, and was named for Alfred's brother,
Robert Love Taylor
Robert Love "Bob" Taylor (July 31, 1850March 31, 1912) was an American politician, writer, and lecturer. A member of the Democratic Party, he served three terms as the 24th governor of Tennessee, from 1887 to 1891, and again from 1897 to 1899, a ...
, also very active in Tennessee politics.
[Clinton J. Holloway]
A Place to call home: Remarks on the Williams-Taylor House, Milligan College, Tennessee on the occasion of the renovation and dedication as the Taylor-Phillips House
, Milligan College (October 25, 2002). Taylor received a
Bachelor of Philosophy
Bachelor of Philosophy (BPhil, BPh, or PhB; la, Baccalaureus Philosophiae or ) is the title of an academic degree that usually involves considerable research, either through a thesis or supervised research projects. Unlike many other bachelor's ...
degree from
Milligan College
Milligan University is a Private university, private Christianity, Christian university in Milligan College, Tennessee. Founded in 1866 as the Buffalo Male and Female Institute, and known as Milligan College from 1881 to May 2020, the school has ...
in 1922 and
read law
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to enter the bar in 1923, also receiving a
Bachelor of Laws
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from
Yale Law School
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in 1924. He was a semi-professional baseball player in Summers, Tennessee from 1920 to 1922. He was in private practice in
Johnson City, Tennessee from 1924 to 1949.
Federal judicial service
On November 2, 1949, Taylor received a
recess appointment
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from President
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953. A leader of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 34th vice president from January to April 1945 under Franklin ...
to a seat on the
vacated by Judge
George Caldwell Taylor. Formally nominated to the same seat by President Truman on January 5, 1950, Taylor was confirmed by the
United States Senate
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The composition and pow ...
on March 8, 1950, and received his commission on March 9, 1950. He served as Chief Judge from 1961 to 1969. He was a member of the
Judicial Conference of the United States
The Judicial Conference of the United States, formerly known as the Conference of Senior Circuit Judges, was created by the United States Congress in 1922 with the principal objective of framing policy guidelines for administration of judicial cour ...
from 1972 to 1975. He assumed
senior status
Senior status is a form of semi-retirement for United States federal judges. To qualify, a judge in the Federal judiciary of the United States, federal court system must be at least 65 years old, and the sum of the judge's age and years of servi ...
on January 15, 1984, serving in that capacity until his death on July 11, 1987.
References
Sources
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External links
Robert L. Taylor Papers University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries
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1899 births
1987 deaths
Milligan University alumni
Yale Law School alumni
Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee
United States district court judges appointed by Harry S. Truman
20th-century American judges
People from Washington County, Tennessee
United States federal judges admitted to the practice of law by reading law