About Fawcett G. Taylor
Lived 1878 – 1940 (aged 61–62). Fawcett G. Taylor was a Canadian politician.
Fawcett Gowler Taylor, (April 29, 1878 ) was a Manitoba politician, and was the leader of that province's Conservative Party from 1922 to 1933.
Taylor was born in Meadow Lea, Manitoba, the son of William Taylor and was educated in Winnipeg. He served as mayor of Portage la Prairie from 1912 to 1915. Taylor married Mabel Agnes Dykeman in 1901. He was named King's Counsel in 1913. In the provincial election of 1915, he ran as a Conservative candidate in the Portage la Prairie constituency and was defeated. He was elected for Portage la Prairie in the provincial election of 1920, and was chosen as party leader in a second attempt on April 5, 1922,
He died at home in Winnipeg and was buried in Portage la Prairie.
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