Taylor Townsend

Lawyer, Person

1963 –

37

Who is Taylor Townsend?

Thomas Taylor Townsend, known as Taylor Townsend, 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. Long, a Natchitoches businessman and member of the Long political dynasty who had served consecutively since 1968. Townsend prevailed, 7643 votes to Long's 7447 votes. The defeat was stunning in that Long had been unopposed in 1995. Long was apparently the last member of his political family to have held public office in Louisiana until 2008, when Long's younger brother, Gerald Long of Natchitoches, won a state senate seat by defeating Taylor Townsend. Considered an authority on secondary and higher education planning and funding, Jimmy Long had been named one of the 100 most significant people in the 20th century history of North Louisiana by the Shreveport Times newspaper.

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Born
1963
Natchitoches
Profession
Education
  • Southern University and A&M College
  • Northwestern State University

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on July 23, 2013

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