Zachary Taylor (Tennessee politician)

Zachary Taylor (May 9, 1849 – February 19, 1921) was a 19th-century American lawyer and politician who was a one-term U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1885 to 1887.

Hall's School near Covington, Tennessee, and was graduated from the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington as senior captain July 4, 1872.

He moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and engaged in the general life insurance business.

Taylor died in Ellendale, Tennessee on February 19, 1921 (age 71 years, 286 days).

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress