R. S. Taylor
![Taylor ({{Circa|1887}})](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/R._S._Taylor_-_Senate_of_North_Carolina_1887.png)
He became a justice of the peace September 1, 1873.
He was a Democrat and served as the liberal executive committee chairman for Edgecombe in 1882. However by 1884 when he was listed as a Republican and was a speaker at republican meetings in Edgecombe.
Taylor was first elected to the senate in 1885 serving the 5th district for Edgecombe as a republican. He was one of two black senators in the 1885 session along with George Henry White. He was described at the time in ''The Tarborough Southerner'' as a Jamaican carpetbagger. He was elected for a second term to serve 1887 and 1888. In March 1887 he gave a speech on disfranchisement and put forward a bill to address the issue. Provided by Wikipedia
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