Taylor Webster (October 1, 1800 – April 27, 1876) was an American newspaperman and politician who served three terms as a
United States Representative
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from
Ohio's 2nd congressional district
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from 1833 to 1839.
Biography
Born in
Pennsylvania
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, Webster moved with his parents to Ohio in 1806, where he received a limited schooling. He briefly attended
Miami University
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in
Oxford
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, Ohio. He was editor and publisher of ''The Western Telegraph'' in
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, Ohio, from 1828 to 1836. He served as clerk of the
Ohio House of Representatives
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in 1829 and as a member of that body from 1831 to 1832.
Congress
Webster was elected as a
Jacksonian to the
Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses and as a
Democrat
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to the
Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1833 – March 3, 1839). From 1842 to 1846, he was clerk of court of
Butler County, Ohio. Thereafter he resumed his business pursuits.
Later career and death
In 1863, he relocated to
,
Louisiana
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, to work in a clerical position and died there fourteen years later. He is interred at
Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 in New Orleans.
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1800 births
1876 deaths
Journalists from Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania politicians
People from Butler County, Ohio
19th-century American newspaper editors
Miami University alumni
Members of the Ohio House of Representatives
Politicians from New Orleans
Louisiana Democrats
Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio
American male journalists
19th-century American politicians
Burials in Louisiana
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio