Waller Taylor

Waller Taylor (c. 1775 – August 26, 1826)[1] was an American military commander, politician, and one of the first two senators from the state of Indiana.

[2] He fought against Native Americans and served as an aide-de-camp to William Henry Harrison during the Tecumseh's War in 1809 to 1810.

Taylor continued in the United States Army during the War of 1812 and rose to the rank of adjutant general.

Taylor was a member of the faction in the United States Senate that supported John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay.

Little else is known about the rest of Taylor's life except that he returned to Lunenburg, Virginia, and died there a year after leaving the Senate, of natural causes.