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Johnson won the election by 2, 250 votes, some of which were Whig votes received in return for his promise to support Nathaniel Taylor for his prior seat in Congress.
Scott captured Mexico City in September 1847, and Taylor won a series of victories in northern Mexico.
In 1980, Taylor and his passenger Benga Johansson won 4 races, and finished on the podium in all seven events.
Charles Taylor won the 1997 presidential elections with 75. 33 percent of the vote, while the runner-up, Unity Party leader Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, received a mere 9. 58 percent of the vote.
Taylor won the election by a large majority, primarily because Liberians feared a return to war had Taylor lost.
He won no electoral votes, but took enough votes in New York to give the state — and perhaps the election — to Zachary Taylor.
In 1981, Taylor won the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year awards and the Giants made the playoffs for the first time since 1963.
The Giants ' defensive leader was Hall of Fame outside linebacker Lawrence Taylor who led the league with 20½ sacks during the regular season, won the NFL Defensive Player of the Year Award for the third time in his career, and became just the second defensive player to ever win the NFL Most Valuable Player Award.
Dolenz participated in the 2008 – 09 season of CMT's " Gone Country ," competing against fellow celebrities Sheila E ( who eventually won ), Taylor Dayne, George Clinton, and Richard Grieco.
She wrote the biography entitled Jane Austen, which won the $ 25, 000 Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction in April 2002, an award accepted by her daughter Meg on her behalf in Toronto, Ontario, on April 22, 2002.
Payne won both awards as part of a writing duo, with Jim Taylor, and writing trio, with Jim Rash and Nat Faxon.
While Taylor won the early rounds, Chávez rallied in the later rounds, scoring a knockdown with seconds remaining in the final round of the fight.
In contrast to his predecessor Allan Border, who acquired the nickname ' Captain Grumpy ', Taylor won plaudits for his always cheerful and positive demeanour.
Although heavily criticised as a conservative decision, Australia still won the match by 184 runs, with Taylor adding 58 in the second innings.
Despite this, Australia won by ten wickets in the first Test at Barbados, with Taylor contributing a half-century.
Australia won the First Test in Brisbane by an innings in three and a half days, with Taylor contributing 69.
Australia won the Third Test in Bangalore by eight wickets, with Taylor scoring an unbeaten 102 in a second innings run chase.
The match ended in a draw, as did the Third Test, so Australia won the series and Taylor ended with 513 runs at 128. 25 average.
Christopher left the New York stage for Hollywood to attempt to gain work in television, where he guest-starred in several well-known series, including: The Andy Griffith Show ( he portrayed a new, young doctor scheduling Opie Taylor for a tonsillectomy ) and also as an IRS agent who came to collect taxes due from Aunt Bee ( who had won some prizes on a TV show ), Death Valley Days, The Patty Duke Show, The Men from Shiloh and Good Times ( he portrayed the military doctor examining J. J. Evans ).
Taylor includes in the mural Quanah Parker at Roaring Springs, Judge Henry H. Campbell in his dugout prior to the establishment of the Matador Ranch, Dude Barton, an honoree of the National Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, and Shannon Davidson, a long-distance rider who won a Hollywood movie contract.
In addition, Taylor ISD won six Gold Performance Standard awards for academic performance, according to the State of Texas during the 2011 school year.
Among other notable achievements by Taylor ISD this in 2011-2012, students from Taylor ISD won their fifth invitation to the World Odyssey of the Mind competitions, and the high school academic decathlon team won 2nd place at the state's highest academic competition, the Academic Decathlon.

Taylor and Lincoln
Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.
* December – John Taylor, Bishop of Lincoln ( b. 1503 )
It also represented a turning point, as young talent emerged from around the world, the likes of Ferguson, Clendenin and Wayne Wong, had given way to an new field of talent like " Little " Jack Taylor, Peter Johnson in Moguls, Eddie Lincoln, Bob " BadBob " Salerno and Frank Bare Jr. in Aerials and Scott Willingham and Mark Steigemeier in Ballet.
Mary Todd Lincoln, for example, the wife of President Abraham Lincoln, was a laudanum addict, as was the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who was famously interrupted in the middle of an opium-induced writing session of Kubla Khan by a " person from Porlock.
Among the notables who died either without a valid will or no will at all are Ross Alexander, Fatty Arbuckle, Anura Bandaranaike, Madhav Prasad Birla, Sonny Bono, George Brent, Lenny Bruce, Jacob A. Cantor, Kurt Cobain, Russ Columbo, Sam Cooke, James Dean, Sandy Dennis, John Denver, Divine, Duke Ellington, Cass Elliot, Chris Farley, Bobby Fischer, Redd Foxx, Mary Frann, James A. Garfield, Marvin Gaye, Ulysses S. Grant, Billie Holiday, Buddy Holly, Shemp Howard, Howard Hughes, Andrew Johnson, Florence Griffith-Joyner, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ernie Kovacs, Harry Langdon, Bruce Lee, Abraham Lincoln, Peter Lorre, Jayne Mansfield, Rocky Marciano, Karl Marx, Steve McNair, Sal Mineo, Carmen Miranda, Keith Moon, Rosa Parks, Pablo Picasso, Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Tupac Shakur, Don Simpson, Anna Nicole Smith, William Desmond Taylor, Sharon Tate, Tiny Tim, Ritchie Valens, Hervé Villechaize, Barry White, and Jimmy Witherspoon.
The county courthouse in Medford is on the National Register of Historic Places. In 1875 Taylor County with its current boundaries was carved out of the larger Chippewa, Lincoln and Clark counties and a bit of Marathon with the county seat at Medford.
The county is divided into forty-eight townships: Banner, Beaver Creek, Black, Brunson, Bull Creek, Carter, Colome, Condon, Curlew, Dog Ear, Elliston, Greenwood, Holsclaw, Huggins, Ideal, Irwin, Jordan, Keyapaha, King, Lake, Lamro, Lincoln, Lone Star, Lone Tree, McNeely, Millboro, Pahapesto, Plainview, Pleasant Valley, Pleasant View, Progressive, Rames, Rosedale, Roseland, Star Prairie, Star Valley, Stewart, Sully, Taylor, Valley, Weaver, Willow Creek, Wilson, Witten, Wortman, and Wright ; and one area of unorganized territory: Gassman.
Taylor and Grindal Islands are also close to the Lincoln National Park but are not a part of the Reserve.
Southgate borders the cities of Riverview ( south ), Wyandotte ( east ), Allen Park ( northwest ), Taylor ( west ), and Lincoln Park ( north ), as well as Brownstown Township ( southwest ).
Taylor is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Lincoln County, Wyoming, United States.
Public education in the community of Taylor is provided by Lincoln County School District # 2.
His deepest commitments were emotional and reserved for old friends ; he was unflinchingly loyal to women like Elizabeth Taylor, Libby Holman, Nancy Walker and Ann Lincoln ".
On January 16, 1862, in a private meeting with President Lincoln, Edmund Dick Taylor advised him to issue greenbacks as legal tender.
" Taylor is one with most American thinkers from Washington to Jefferson to Lincoln in doubting that the free Negro could ever be anything but a problem for American politics.
René has performed and recorded as a leader and featured sideman with the crème de la crème of Black Musical tradition, to name a few — Jackie McLean, the Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, Lionel Hampton-All Stars, Tito Puente Orchestra, Horace Silver, Woody Shaw, Dr. Bill Taylor, Baba Olatunji, Hugh Masekela, Miriam Makeba, Abbey Lincoln, Dexter Gordon, James Moody, Yusef Lateef, Jaco Pastorius, Jerry Gonzales ' Forte Apache Band, Hamza El Din, as well as in collaboration with premier poet-activist Amiri Baraka ( Leroi Jones ).
Only 41 when her husband became president, widow Mrs. Sarah Polk outlived several of her successors: Margaret Taylor, Abigail Fillmore, Jane Pierce, Mary Todd Lincoln, Eliza Johnson and Lucy Webb Hayes.
* Taylor, John M. William Henry Seward: Lincoln ’ s Right Hand.
John Taylor ( c. 1503 – 1554 ) was Bishop of Lincoln from 1552 to 1554.
Following his retirement from playing, Taylor became manager of Lincoln City, being the youngest manager in the league at the age of 28 in December 1972.
Taylor led Lincoln to the Fourth Division title in 1976, during which the Imps set the league records for most wins ( 32 ), fewest defeats ( 4 ), and most points ( 74 ) ( when 2 points were awarded for a win ).
State funerals have been held in Washington D. C. for William Henry Harrison ( 1841 ), Zachary Taylor ( 1850 ), Abraham Lincoln ( 1865 ), Thaddeus Stevens ( 1868 ), James A. Garfield ( 1881 ), William McKinley ( 1901 ), Warren Harding ( 1920 ), the Unknown Soldier of World War I ( 1921 ), William Howard Taft ( 1930 ), John J. Pershing ( 1948 ), the Unknown Soldiers of World War II and the Korean War ( 1958 ), John F. Kennedy ( 1963 ), Douglas MacArthur ( 1964 ), Herbert Hoover ( 1964 ), Dwight D. Eisenhower ( 1969 ), Lyndon B. Johnson ( 1973 ), Ronald Reagan ( 2004 ), and Gerald Ford ( 2006-2007 ).
Portrait of Jack ( John ) Taylor, pitcher for the Chicago Cubs, National League, warming up with other players at home plate at West Side Grounds located between West Polk Street, South Wolcott Avenue ( formerly Lincoln Street ), West Taylor Street, and South Wood Street, in the Near West Side community area of Chicago, Illinois.

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