John Peroutt Taylor

John Peroutt Taylor
32nd State Treasurer of Mississippi
In office
January 17, 1916 – January 19, 1920
Member of the Mississippi Senate
from the 26th district
In office
January 1912 – January 17, 1916
Succeeded byLewis S. Hemphill
Member of the Mississippi House of Representatives
from the Montgomery County district
In office
1892–1906
Personal details
Born1855 (1855)
Carroll County, Mississippi, U.S.
DiedSeptember 5, 1930(1930-09-05) (aged 74–75)
Winona, Mississippi, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic

John Peroutt Taylor (1855 – September 5, 1930), also known as John Pervatt Taylor,[1] was a Democratic Mississippi politician and legislator who was the state treasurer of Mississippi from 1916 to 1920.

Biography

John Peroutt Taylor was born in the year 1855,[2] in Carroll County, Mississippi.[3][4] He was the son of Benjamin B. and Elizabeth Frances Taylor.[4] He graduated from Vanderbilt University with a medical degree in 1881 and started practicing medicine.[3][4] He was also a farmer.[2] He was elected to represent Montgomery County as a Democrat in the Mississippi House of Representatives in November 1891.[4][3][2] He served there from 1892 to 1906.[4] He was elected to the Mississippi State Senate in 1911, representing the 26th District, which composed of Carroll and Montgomery Counties.[4] In 1915, he was elected the state treasurer of Mississippi.[3] He served in this position from January 17, 1916 to January 19, 1920.[5][6][7] He died on September 5, 1930, in Winona, Mississippi.[8]

Personal life

Taylor was a devout Baptist.[3] He never married.[8] His cousin, Walter Nesbit Taylor, was also a Mississippi state senator.[8]

References

  1. ^ Alumni Directory ... Vanderbilt University. 1923. p. 487.
  2. ^ a b c Mississippi (1900). Department Reports. p. 92.
  3. ^ a b c d e Mississippi Department of Archives and History (1917). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. p. 506.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Mississippi Department of Archives and History (1912). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History. p. 384.
  5. ^ "Historical and statistical information" (PDF). www.sos.ms.gov.
  6. ^ The Commercial and Financial Chronicle. National News Service. 1917. p. 134.
  7. ^ Rowland, Dunbar (1924). The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi. Department of Archives and History.
  8. ^ a b c "Clarion-Ledger from Jackson, Mississippi on September 6, 1930 · Page 1". Newspapers.com. 6 September 1930. Retrieved 2021-03-25.