( The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.

In its two decades of existence, the Whig Party had two of its candidates, William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor, elected president.

However Taylor, once nominated and elected, showed that he had his own plans.

Taylor Township was named in honor of Zachary Taylor, a national military hero in the 1840s, who would go on to be elected the twelfth President of the United States in 1849.

Taylor was elected Speaker of the House for five consecutive sessions, beginning in 1857.

* March-Samuel Taylor Coleridge elected FRSL

Taylor was elected a fellow of the Royal Society early in 1712, and in the same year sat on the committee for adjudicating the claims of Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Leibniz, and acted as secretary to the society from 13 January 1714 to 21 October 1718.

Taylor was elected to state governor in 1826.

Based on a request by liberal Democratic Sen. Glen H. Taylor of Idaho, the newly elected Republican majority in the United States Senate refused to seat Bilbo for the term because of his speeches.

** John Taylor, ( DR ), elected November 15, 1820

The next year, 1764, Taylor was commissioned as a justice of the peace in Northampton County and with William Allen ’ s backing, was elected to the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly.

He held the post of ambassador to Libya and Tunisia after Taylor was elected in 1997.

When Governor Joseph Taylor Robinson resigned in 1913 to serve in the United States Senate, a special election was held and Hays was elected governor.

Warner was also the sixth husband to actress Elizabeth Taylor, whom he married before being elected to the Senate.

The Peace Commission met in St. Louis, Missouri, on August 6, 1867, where it elected Nathaniel G. Taylor, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, as its president.

" Matilda Dudley was elected president and treasurer, Mary Hawkins and Mary Bird as counselors, Louisa R. Taylor as secretary, and Amanda Barnes Smith as assistant secretary.

Zachary Taylor was elected to the presidency in 1848, and was inaugurated in 1849.

Taylor was elected to the European Parliament for Midlands East in 1979, and served as the Conservatives ' European Spokesman on the Community Budget from 1979-81.

He was elected as the Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Wyre Forest in the 1997 general election, but lost his seat in the 2001 election to Richard Taylor, the Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern candidate.

Taylor was elected, but Crittenden refused a post in his cabinet, fearing he would be charged with making a " corrupt bargain ", as Clay had been in 1825.

After Taylor was elected, he offered Crittenden the post of Secretary of State.

Taylor was elected to the Bay St. Louis City Council in 1981, and then to a vacant seat in the Mississippi State Senate in 1983.

When the Leader of the Opposition, Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield, died in May 1990, Ingraham was unanimously elected Leader of the Free National Movement and was appointed Leader of the Official Opposition on 18 May 1990, by Henry Milton Taylor, the Governor-General.

Election of Howard L. Taylor to membership in Pacific Coast Stock Exchange, effective Tuesday, has been announced by Thomas P. Phelan, president of the exchange.

Taylor, president and voting stockholder of Taylor and Co., Beverly Hills, has been active in the securities business since 1925.

No disability or lack of qualification prevented Taylor and Fillmore from taking office, and as they had been duly certified to take office that day as president-elect and vice president-elect, if Taylor was not president because he had not been sworn in as such, then Atchison, who had not been sworn in either, certainly was not President either.

In these cases, the position has been filled by a female relative or friend of the president, such as Martha Jefferson Randolph during Jefferson's presidency, Emily Donelson and Sarah Yorke Jackson during Jackson's, Mary Elizabeth ( Taylor ) Bliss during Taylor's, Mary Harrison McKee during Harrison's presidency, upon her mother's death, and Harriet Lane during Buchanan's.

The Ghanaian authorities did not attempt to arrest Taylor, declaring they could not round up a president they themselves had invited as a guest for peace talks.

The president of the last of these, Charles Taylor, was forced to step down in 2003, and the United Nations installed a transitional government.

In August 2003, Taylor resigned and fled the country and vice-president Moses Blah became acting president.

Indeed, the faculty doubled and the graduate student body quintupled during the terms of Karl Taylor Compton, president of MIT between 1930 and 1948, James Rhyne Killian, president from 1948 to 1957, and Julius Adams Stratton, chancellor from 1952 to 1957, whose institution-building strategies shaped the expanding university.

* 2012 – Former Liberian president Charles Taylor is sentenced to 50 years in prison for his role in atrocities committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.

* January 28 – Charles Taylor, Liberian president

John Taylor, future president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is severely injured but survives.

According to a June 2, 1999, article in The Virginian-Pilot, Robertson had extensive business dealings with Liberian president Charles Taylor.

During his twenty-five years at president, Dr. Taylor oversaw the transformation of the former Louisiana Polytechnic Institute into Louisiana Tech University.

After Johnson became president in November 1963 following Kennedy's assassination, Clifford served frequently as an unofficial White House Counsel and sometimes undertook short-term official duties, including a trip with General Maxwell Taylor in 1967 to Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

Stephen Taylor officiated as his last act before assuming office as president of Madison University.

Jesse N. Stone, the fourth president of the Southern University System, based in Baton Rouge, was a Gibsland native, as was former Louisiana Tech University president F. Jay Taylor.

* F. Jay Taylor, president of Louisiana Tech, 1962 – 1987

Originally named Taylor but renamed Brimson in honour of William George Brimson who was vice president of the Quincy Omaha & Kansas City Railroad Co.

Reorganized as the Taylor Aircraft Company, Piper effectively took control of the firm when he assumed the position of corporate secretary-treasurer, although he retained C. G. Taylor in the role of president.