Biography

08/30/1931 - 09/19/2015


TAYLOR, Fred E., a Representative from Fayette County; born in Adah, Fayette County, Pa., August 30, 1931; graduated, Fairchance High School; attended, Murray Hill Business School; served, Alaskan Ski Command, United States Army; owner and operator, Taylor Insurance Agency; executive committee, Fayette County Democratic Party; legislative director, Outdoor Sportsmen of Pennsylvania; elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1966; reelected to the House for 11 more nonconsecutive terms; appointed, Special Bipartisan Committee to Investigate the Flooding of the Monongahela River Basin (1986); unsuccessful campaign for reelection to the House (1972, 1992); died, September 19, 2015 in Uniontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; interred, Sylvan Heights Cemetery, Oliver, Fayette County, Pennsylvania


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