The Gentleman From Colorado

Edward T. Taylor

By Ray Hill

Edward Thomas Taylor served 32 years in the U.S. House of Representatives for Colorado. Taylor didn’t get to Congress until he was 50 years old and stayed there until his death at age 83. By the time Congressman Ed Taylor died, he was one of the leading figures in the House, serving as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. That post was, in Taylor’s opinion, “the second hardest job in Congress.” “Speaker of the House is first,” Taylor told a reporter. “I believe the grind hastened the deaths of the six men who were chairmen immediately before me.”

Twenty-two times Edward T. Taylor ran for public office in general elections and never once was defeated. Tall, wiry and balding as he aged, Taylor favored gold-rimmed glasses

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