Life and Career of Senator Robert Love Taylor (Our Bob) [Tennessee History]

Taylor, James P. , Alf A. and Hugh L.

Verlag: The Bob Taylor Publishing Co., Nashville, Tennessee, 1913

Beschreibung

Half leather to marbled boards; Embossed ownership stamp on the title page with ownershipsignature on the front free endpage. The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even toning. Shelf handling wear with rubbed edges and spine tips. 9 inches tall; 370 pages with photo plate illustration. Robert L. Taylor, three-term governor and one-term U.S. senator, was born into a political family in Carter County, July 31, 1850. At the time, his uncle Landon Carter Haynes, a Democrat, was serving as Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, and his father, Nathaniel Greene Taylor, a Whig, farmer, and Methodist minister, had lost a congressional race to Andrew Johnson the year before. Haynes later became a Confederate senator, and Nathaniel Taylor served two terms in Congress before receiving an appointment as commissioner of Indian Affairs under President Andrew Johnson. Authored by his three surviving brothers. Illustrated with many interesting pictures of the great orator, from the age of fifteen to the age of sixty years, also with views of "Happy Valley," made famous by his lectures and speeches. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 18086

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Life and Career of Senator Robert Love ...

Verlag: The Bob Taylor Publishing Co., Nashville, Tennessee

Erscheinungsdatum: 1913

Zustand: Good

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket As Issued