William Sylvester Taylor was an American politician who was the 33rd governor of Kentucky. He was initially declared the winner of the disputed gubernatorial election of 1899, but the Kentucky General
William Sylvester Taylor
Taylor's grave at Crown Hill Cemetery
William O'Connell Bradley
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William O'Connell Bradley was an American politician from the state of Kentucky. He served as the 32nd governor of Kentucky and was later elected by the state legislature as a U.S. senator from that s
William S. Taylor (Kentucky politician)
…divisions in the majority party resulted in his election as Attorney General of Kentucky on a ticket with the Commonwealth's first Republican governor, William O. Bradley. Four years later, Taylor was elected in 1899 to the governorship. When the General Assembly reversed the election results after a dispute, incensed…
William O. Bradley
Simon Bolivar Buckner, Bradley's opponent in 1887
Parker Watkins Hardin, Bradley's opponent in 1895
The election of a successor to Senator J. C. S. Blackburn dominated the first legislative session of Bradley's term.