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Taylor, Edward 1642?-1729.

English-born American Puritan cleric and metaphysical poet. His works, unpublished until 1939, include "God's Determinations Touching His Elect" (c. 1685).

Taylor, Frederick Winslow 1856-1915.

American inventor, engineer, and efficiency expert noted for his innovations in industrial engineering and management.

Taylor, Charles McArthur Ghankay Born 1948.

Liberian political leader whose tenure as president of Liberia (1997–2003) was marked by widespread conflict and rebellion. In 2012, an international criminal court found him guilty of war crimes committed in Sierra Leone.

Taylor, Dame Elizabeth Rosemond 1932-2011.

British-born American actress. A childhood star after her appearance in National Velvet (1944), she later won an Academy Award for BUtterfield 8 (1960) and for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966).

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Elizabeth Taylor

photographed in 2007

Taylor, Cecil Percival 1929-2018.

American pianist and composer who was a leader of the free jazz movement of the 1960s, which emphasized unrestrained, often dissonant improvisation.

Taylor, Zachary Known as "Old Rough and Ready." 1784-1850.

The 12th president of the United States (1849-1850). An army officer in the Black Hawk War (1832) and the Second Seminole War (1835-1842), he became a national hero during the Mexican War (1846-1848), was elected president (1848), and died in office (1850).

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Zachary Taylor

1860 portrait by George

Peter Alexander Healy

(1813-1894)

Taylor, Paul Born 1930.

American choreographer whose avant-garde work includes Three Epitaphs (1956) and Orbs (1966).

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