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Caleb Newbold Taylor (July 27, 1813 – November 15, 1887) was a
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member of the
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from
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.


Early life

Caleb Newbold Taylor was born near Newportville, Pennsylvania. He was engaged in agricultural pursuits, and served as a delegate to the Whig State convention at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1832. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to Congress in
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, and again in
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. He was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention.


United States House of Representatives

Taylor was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress. He successfully contested the election of John R. Reading to the Forty-first Congress. Later, he was engaged in banking, and served as president of the Farmers’ National Bank of
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, from 1875 until his death at his home, “Sunbury Farm,” near Newportville. Interment in the Friends Burying Ground in Bristol, Pennsylvania.


Sources


The Political Graveyard


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* 1813 births 1887 deaths American bankers People from Bucks County, Pennsylvania Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American businesspeople {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub