Jack Taylor (Arizona politician)
| Jerald Jackson "Jack" Taylor | |
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| Mayor of Mesa, Arizona | |
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In office 1966–1972 |
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| Preceded by | Egbert J. Brown |
| Succeeded by | Eldon W. Cooley |
| Arizona State Representative for Mesa | |
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In office 1973–1975 |
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| Arizona State Senator for Mesa | |
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In office 1975–1989 |
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| Succeeded by | Lester Pearce |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
May 23, 1907 Sonora, Texas, US |
| Died | March 31, 1995 (aged 87) Mesa, Arizona |
| Resting place | City of Mesa Cemetery |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Eda Sarah Jane Staton Taylor |
| Relations | Roger L. Worsley (former son-in-law) |
| Children | 2 |
| Parents | Walter William and Ida Brigham Page Taylor |
| Residence |
Brownwood, Texas |
| Occupation | Educator |
Brownwood, Texas
Jerald Jackson Taylor, known as Jack Taylor (May 23, 1907 – March 31, 1995), was an educator and Republican politician from Mesa, Arizona. He was the mayor of Mesa and served in both houses, consecutively, of the Arizona State Legislature.
Taylor was born in Sonora in Sutton County in southern Central Texas, the second of seven children of Walter William Taylor (1882–1972), a Southern Baptist pastor and insurance agent, and the former Ida Brigham Page (1886–1938), a native of Blanco County northwest of San Antonio. Texas. Walter and Ida, a stenographer, relocated in 1927 from Brownwood in Brown County southeast of Abilene to Phoenix, Arizona.
Jack Taylor married in Brownwood the former Eda Sarah Jane Staton (April 21, 1911 – November 11, 1995). They too followed his parents in relocating to Arizona. The Taylors' two children were born in Phoenix, Thomas Jackson Taylor, who wed the former Tommye Jean Bledsoe, and Glenda Jane Taylor (August 23, 1937 – July 18, 1979), who died at the age of forty-one. In August 1958, Glenda Taylor married Roger L. Worsley at the First Baptist Church of Mesa. Worsley became a college administrator and from 1985 to 1995 was the president of Laredo Community College in Laredo, Texas, and thereafter the chancellor of the then Southern Arkansas Technical College in Camden, Arkansas. The Worsleys subsequently divorced. Roger Worsley retired in 2011 to Sumter County, Florida.
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