Rise of a Black Male Named George Edwin Taylor

George Edwin Taylor was born into a hard and troublesome childhood. Little did he know he would be a very successful man and even a candidate for the President of the United States of America.

George was born in Arkansas in 1857. His mother was free and his father was enslaved. George and his mother decided to start a new life in a new place. They moved to Illinois. Illinois did not go how they had hoped. With his mom passing away, the La Crosse court system fostered George to a black farmer named Nathan Smith.

George lived with Nathan until he turned 20. Before George left, a political mind had intrigued him. He insisted George to go and get some education and obtain a superior education. George attended Wayland University in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. Although he attended Wayland University he did not earn a degree because of money and health issues.

After his college years he returned to La Crosse and found a job as a newspaper reporter and editor. This led directly to his interests in politics most directly, labor politics. He later became a leader and an office holder in Wisconsin's Union Labor Party.  Being an office holder, George started his own newspaper called the Wisconsin Labor advocate. George started a name for his self. With that in the 1880's he received a lot of criticism and later discontinued his paper.

In 1891 George moved to Oskaloosa, Iowa. There, he joined both the republican and democratic party. In 1904 he joined the National Liberty Party. This party was made exclusively for blacks by blacks. The party had an agreed candidate in the presidential election. The candidate later arrested and thrown into jail. With no candidate they asked Taylor to be the party's candidate. His party was prepared to say the least already having an agenda of, universal suffrage regardless of race. He later loss the election to Theodore Roosevelt.

He may not have won the election but the people had heard what his position was. Through all his life he would always strive to be a great man. Growing up with no mother or father is difficult, but letting those emotions go to fight for your piece of mind never stopped Taylor.




References
- “A Forgotten Presidential Candidate From 1904.” NPR.Org, https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/12/01/455267676/a-forgotten-presidential-candidate-from-1904. Accessed 19 Jan. 2020
- “Black History Month: The Son of a Slave Who Ran for President, George Edwin Taylor.” Black Enterprise, 2 Feb. 2019, https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-history-month-son-slave-ran-president/
- Mouser, Bruce L. Running for President: George Edwin Taylor, 1904 •. 3 Feb. 2011, https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/running-president-george-edwin-taylor-1904/
- UW Press: For Labor, Race, and Liberty: George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics - Bruce L. Mouser. https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4801.html

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