John Tayler
BIRTH
Jul 4, 1742
New York City, New York
DEATH
March 19, 1829
Albany, New York
Governor of New York
1817-1817
FAMILY
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Tayler, John
(1742-1829)
John Tayler was a New York merchant and politician who served in the state assembly and senate, as lieutenant governor, and briefly as acting governor. He was active in Albany politics through the Revolutionary and early national periods.
John Tayler was born on Jul 4, 1742 in New York City, New York. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies John Tayler with work or public activity as a merchant, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. John Tayler died on Mar 19, 1829 in Albany, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.