district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party nationality term_end preceded profession birth_date term_start image article_title state name alma_mater
12th 11th mel watt v. lamar gudger 28 february 1995 black mountain , north carolina vader , washington democrat american january 3 , 1963 january 3 , 1977 david mckee hall basil whitener lawyer 31 january 1910 june 25 , 1960 january 3 , 1963 roy a. taylor 93rd congress 1973.jpg roy a. taylor
 north carolina north carolina roy a. taylor maryville college asheville university law school
roy a. taylor

roy arthur taylor -lrb- january 31 , 1910 - february 28 , 1995 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from north carolina .
born in vader , washington , taylor graduated from asheville-biltmore college , asheville , north carolina , 1929 .
he graduated from maryville college , maryville , tennessee , 1931 .
j.d. , asheville university law school , asheville , north carolina , 1936 .
he was a lawyer in private practice .
he was in the united states navy from 1943 to 1946 .
he served as member of the north carolina general assembly from 1947 to 1949 and 1951-1953 .
taylor was elected as a democrat to the eighty-sixth congress , by special election , to fill the vacancy caused by the death of united states representative david m. hall .
he was reelected to eight succeeding congresses and served from june 25 , 1960 to january 3 , 1977 .
he was not a candidate for reelection to the ninety-fifth congress in 1976 .
in 1986 he received an honorary doctor of law from the university of north carolina at asheville he died on november 28 , 1995 , in black mountain , north carolina , and was interred in mountain view memorial gardens in the same town .
