Waller Taylor (1786-26 August 1826) was a US Senator from Indiana from 11 December 1816 to 3 March 1825, preceding William Hendricks. He was a Democratic-Republican and a National Republican.
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Waller Taylor was born in Lunenburg County, Virginia in 1786, and he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1800 to 1802. In 1804, he moved to Vincennes, Indiana to practice law, and he became chancellor of the Indiana Territory in 1807. He served as an aide-de-camp to William Henry Harrison at the Battle of Tippecanoe, and he rose to the rank of Adjutant-General during the War of 1812. Taylor supported the expansion of slavery, but he failed to legalize it in Indiana. In 1816, he became one of Indiana's inaugural US Senators, serving until 1825. He later joined the National Republican Party, and he died in Lunenburg, Virginia in 1826.