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- Full-time Legislator/Retired Media Consultant
- Born July 16, 1946 in Aurora, Illinois
- Son of the late Harold and the late Pearl Taylor
- November 2, 1970 married Donna J., 2 children, Kasey Taylor Lenz and William Ryan Taylor
- Attended Bradley University; Journalism
- S.C. State University; Honorary Doctorate, of Humane Letters, 2024
- House Ways & Means Committee, 2023-Present
- Member, Labor, Commerce, Industry Committee (2021-22)
- Chairman, Higher Education Sub-Committee (House Education & Public Works Committee), 2015-2020
- 1st Vice Chairman, House Education and Public Works Committee, 2013-14
- Member, House Legislative Oversight Committee, 2015-2020
- Delegate, National Federalism Commission (2023-Present)
- Majority Caucus Whip, 2013-16
- Television News Director/Anchor/Reporter, 1965-76
- President, Illinois News Broadcasters Association, 1974
- Television News Consultant, 1976-2007
- Co-founder and CEO of media research and consulting firms based in Dallas, Los Angeles, and London, 1978-07
- Consultant to President George H.W. Bush's "Points of Light" initiative, 1991-92
- Named "Fifth Estater", Broadcast and Cable Magazine, 1998
- Founder and Commander, Civil Air Patrol Squadron, Rockford, Illinois, 1968-70
- American Red Cross, Aiken County Chapter; Board Member, 2007-2016, Chairman, 2009-10
- Aiken Salvation Army, Advisory Board Member, 2013-Present
- Aiken Symphony Orchestra, Board Member, 2016-present
- 32 Degree Mason and Shriner
- Rotary Club of Aiken, 2009-2020
- Member, Millbrook Baptist Church, Aiken
- South Carolina Chamber of Commerce 'Business Advocate Award': 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2016
- SC-BIPEC 'Champion of Free Enterprise': 2012
- Palmetto Family Alliance 'A' Rating: 2012 & 2017
- NRA 'A' Rating: 2012, 2014, 2016
- NRA 'A+' Rating 2018, 2020, 2022
- Convention of States "Abraham Lincoln Leadership Award": 2018
- ABATE's Community Leader Award: 2019
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