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Alfred Alexander "Alf" Taylor (August 6, 1848 – November 25, 1931) was an American politician and lecturer. He served as Governor of Tennessee from 1921 to 1923, one of just three Republicans to hold the position from the end of Reconstruction to the latter half of the 20th century. He also served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1889 to 1895.〔 In 1886, Taylor ran for governor against his brother, Robert Love Taylor (1850–1912), in a memorable campaign known as the "War of the Roses." Canvassing the state together, the brothers often engaged in light-hearted banter and played fiddles, in contrast to previous gubernatorial campaigns, which involved fierce debates.〔Paul Deresco Augsburg, ''Bob and Alf Taylor: Their Lives and Lectures'' (Morristown, Tenn.: Morristown Book Company, 1925).〕 Taylor ran for governor again in 1910, but lost his party's nomination to Ben W. Hooper. He was victorious in 1920 due in large part to divisions within the Democratic Party over taxes and women's suffrage.〔Phillip Langsdon, ''Tennessee: A Political History'' (Franklin, Tenn.: Hillsboro Press, 2000), pp. 300-303.〕 ==Early life== Taylor was born in the Happy Valley community of Carter County, Tennessee, the second son of Nathaniel Green Taylor, a congressman, Methodist minister, and poet, and Emaline Haynes Taylor, an accomplished pianist.〔 Nathaniel Taylor was a Whig (many of whom later became Republicans), while his wife's family, among them her brother, Landon Carter Haynes, were Democrats. Alfred followed his father into the Republican Party, while his brother, Robert, followed his mother's family into the Democratic Party.〔 Taylor attended Duffield Academy in Elizabethton, Tennessee and Buffalo Institute (modern Milligan College) in Carter County, Tennessee. Following the outbreak of the Civil War, Nathaniel Taylor supported the Union, and the Taylors were forced to move to the North.〔 During this period, Alfred attended Pennington Seminary in Pennington, New Jersey.〔 In 1867, Alfred accompanied his father, then Commissioner of Indian Affairs under President Andrew Johnson, to join the Indian Peace Commission in Kansas in an effort to end the Plains Wars. The commission negotiated the Medicine Lodge Treaty with the southern Plains Indians, bringing about their removal to reservations in Indian Territory. In 1924, Taylor wrote an account of this trip and published it in the ''Chronicles of Oklahoma''.〔(A.A. Taylor, "MEDICINE LODGE PEACE COUNCIL" ), ''Chronicles of Oklahoma'', Volume 2, No. 2, June 1924, accessed 21 January 2011〕 After his study of law, Taylor was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Jonesborough, Tennessee.〔(Finding Aid for Governor Alfred A. Taylor Papers ), Tennessee State Library and Archives, 1968. Retrieved: 6 December 2012.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alfred A. Taylor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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