Taylor Townsend (politician)
 Thomas Taylor Townsend known as Taylor Townsend (born 1963) is an attorney from Natchitoches Louisiana who served as a Democrat in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 2000–2008. Townsend is a nephew and law partner of former Louisiana State Senator Donald G. Kelly in the firm Kelly Townsend & Thomas.In the 1999 nonpartisan blanket primary also known as the nonpartisan blanket primary Townsend narrowly upset veteran Democratic state Representative Jimmy D.