Benjamin Ogle Tayloe, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetBenjamin Ogle Tayloe
American diplomat
Date of Birth: 21-May-1796
Place of Birth: Annapolis, Maryland, United States
Date of Death: 25-Feb-1868
Profession: diplomat
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Benjamin Ogle Tayloe
- Benjamin "Ogle" Tayloe (May 21, 1796 — February 25, 1868) was an American businessman, bon vivant, diplomat, and influential political activist in Washington, D.C.
- during the first half of the 19th century.
- Although he never held elective office, he was a prominent Whig and influential in presidential electoral politics in the 1840s and 1850s.
- His home, the Tayloe House, became a salon for politically powerful people in the federal government and socially influential individuals in the United States and abroad.
- Tayloe was also a party in the important 1869 contract law case, Willard v.
- Tayloe, 75 U.S.
- 557.
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