John L. Taylor

John Lampkin Taylor (March 7, 1805 – September 6, 1870) was a 19th-century American lawyer who was a U.S. Representative from Ohio for four terms from 1847 to 1855.

Biography
Born in Stafford County, near Fredericksburg, Virginia, Taylor completed preparatory studies. He studied law in Washington, D.C..

Early career
He was admitted to the bar in 1828 and started practice in Chillicothe, Ohio in 1829.

He was a major general in the State militia for several years.

Congress
Taylor was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1855).

Later career and death
He served as a clerk in the United States Department of the Interior from May 1, 1870, until his sudden death at his desk in Washington, D.C., September 6, 1870. He was interred in the family burying ground on the Taylor ancestral estate, "Mansfield," near Louisa, Virginia.