Texas Legislators: Past & Present

William Martin Taylor

Full Name: William Martin Taylor
Birth date: April 17, 1817
Death date: September 21, 1871

Terms of Service

Senate, 7th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ & 6th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ Legislatures
11/5/1855 - 11/7/1859

(1) Listed in "Senators holding over: Democrats." Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(2) Democrat. Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(3) 6th Legislature, Regular Session - Roll of Senators elected since the last adjournment presented their credentials, and being qualified, took their seats, 11/5/1855, p. 2. Senate Journal .
(4) 7th Legislature - Roll of Senators (holdover Senator), 11/2/1857, pp. 1, 4. Senate Journal .
(5) 6th Legislature - "The Know-Nothings claimed to have won 11 of 33 seats in the Senate in 1855. Although only 5 - John Caldwell, William H. Martin, William M. Taylor, James W. Flanagan, and Elisha E. Lott - can be positively identified . . .", p. 258. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.
(6) Know-Nothing party, p. 262 - "The aspirations of William M. Taylor had apparently collapsed with those of his party; he was a Know-Nothing . . ." The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.
(7) 7th Legislature - Listed in "large cadre of returning senators," p. 276. The Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836-1861 1990.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, Hon. William M. Taylor, Volume III, p. 1114. Born 1817 in Lancaster, Ohio; in 1850, married Isabella A. Moore, niece of General Sam Houston. A History of Texas and Texans 1914.
William M. Taylor, death date 9/21/1871 in Baltimore, Maryland; burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Crockett, Houston County, Texas. Find a Grave .
Texas State Troops, Brigadier General, District 11. William M. Taylor. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1866. Journal of the Texas State Convention: Assembled at Austin, Feb. 7, 1866. Adjourned April 2, 1866, pp. 3-5. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Biographical sketch and portrait, "William Martin Taylor: Father of the Texas Masonic Ritual," Summer 2019, pp. 11-13. Birth date 4/17/1817, death date 9/21/1871; State Senator representing Anderson and Houston counties. Texas Freemason .
Brigadier General of the Texas State Troops, 1861, pp. 58-59. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.
Biographical sketch, pp. 193-194. Born 1817 in Lancaster, Ohio; died 9/23/1871 in Baltimore. The History of Houston County, Texas 1943.