Walter C. Taylor Explained

Walter C. Taylor
Office1:	North Dakota Insurance Commissioner
Term Start1:	1911
Term End1:	1916
Predecessor1:	Ernest C. Cooper
Successor1:	Sveinung A. Olsness
Birth Date:	18 February 1870
Birth Place:	Alexander, Minnesota, US
Death Place:	Hennepin County, Minnesota, US
Party:	Republican
Spouse:	Mabel Diesem

Walter C. Taylor (February 18, 1870 – August 24, 1929), a.k.a. W.C. Taylor, was a North Dakota politician who served as the North Dakota Insurance Commissioner from 1911 to 1916.

Biography

Walter C. Taylor was born in Alexander, Minnesota on February 18, 1870. He moved to Devils Lake, Dakota Territory, with his parents in 1886. He entered the newspaper business in 1890, purchasing Towner News, a small newspaper from Towner, North Dakota. He relocated to LaMoure, North Dakota, and edited their newspaper, The Chronicle in 1894. He was elected as the North Dakota Insurance Commissioner in 1910, and he served until 1916.^[1]

Taylor died on August 24, 1929, in Hennepin County, Minnesota, at the age of 59.^[2]

Bibliography

• North Dakota Secretary of State. "North Dakota Blue Book" (1911), pp. 528.
• North Dakota Secretary of State. "North Dakota Blue Book" (2005), pp. 332.

See also

• List of North Dakota insurance commissioners

Notes and References

1. Book: North Dakota . Legislative manual : containing the Constitution of North Dakota, also rules and standing committees of the ... Legislative Assembly and historical, statistical and political information. . 1913 . North Dakota centennial blue book,1889-1989 . Bismarck . 515 . en.
2. Web site: Death Certificate Index: 1929-MN-020998 . 2023-03-29 . Minnesota Historical Society . en.