Edward T. Taylor
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Edward Thomas Taylor (June 19, 1858 - September 3, 1941) was a U.S. Representative from Colorado.
Born on a farm near Metamora, Illinois, Taylor attended the common schools of Illinois and Kansas, and was graduated from the high school at Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1881. He moved to Leadville, Colorado. Principal of Leadville High School in 1881 and 1882. He was graduated from the law department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1884. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced the practice of law in Leadville, Colorado. Superintendent of schools of Lake County in 1884. Deputy district attorney in 1885. He moved to Glenwood Springs, Colorado, in 1887. He resumed the practice of his profession. He served as district attorney of the ninth judicial district 1887-1889. He served as member of the State senate 1896-1908, and served as president pro tempore for one term. City attorney 1896-1900. County attorney in 1901 and 1902.
Taylor was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-first and to the sixteen succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, until his death in Denver, Colorado, September 3, 1941. He served as chairman of the Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands (Sixty-fifth Congress), Committee on Appropriations (Seventy-fifth through Seventy-seventh Congresses). He is best remembered for sponsoring the Taylor Grazing Act, enacted in 1934, which regulates grazing on federal public land. He also was responsible for the legislation in 1921 that changed the name of the Grand River to the Colorado River. He was interred in a mausoleum in Rosebud Cemetery, Glenwood Springs, Colorado.
