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Amos Leavitt Taylor (1877–1965) was a lawyer and a politician who was very active in the Massachusetts Republican Party.[1]
Taylor was born in Danbury, New Hampshire, on February 22, 1877, to father Frank Leavitt Taylor and mother Nellie Jane (Martin) Taylor.[2]
Amos Leavitt Taylor attended college at Brown, graduating in 1901 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, then earned an LL.B at Boston University School of Law.[2] In Boston, he worked at Adams & Blinn, Counsellors at Law for the next 60 years.[3] He married Myra Lillian Fairbank on June 16, 1906. Their son, Amos Leavitt Taylor, Jr., also went to Brown, graduating in 1935, then attended Harvard Law School.[4] After 30 years of marriage, Myra Taylor died in 1944. Amos remarried, to Caroline W. Dudley.[1]
In the winter of 1912, Taylor and Robert Goodwin represented Marjorie Newell Robb against Oceanic Steam Navigation Company for the sum of $110,400.00, together with costs from the April 15, 1912, sinking of the Titanic. The loss of the life of her husband for the sum of $110,000.00, and the loss of the luggage and personal effect in the sum of $400.00.[5]
In 1924, he was a delegate (alternate) to the Republican National Convention from Massachusetts.
For twenty-five years, from 1924 to 1949, he was a member of Massachusetts Republican State Committee, serving as its secretary from 1927 to 1928, and its state chair from 1929 to 1932.
He was a delegate to the 1932 Republican National Convention from Massachusetts.
He was a member of the American Bar Association, as well as Gamma Eta Gamma and the Freemasons. Taylor was one of the founders of Phi Gamma Delta at Brown University,[6] and an officer and life member of The Bostonian Society.[7] He was a Unitarian.
In his honor, the Amos L. Taylor Award for Excellence in Scholarship was established at the New England School of Law for special part-time student which are awarded at the end of the J.D. program.[8]
Taylor died at his home in Belmont on June 2, 1965.[3]