Chester William Taylor

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Chester William Taylor (July 16, 1883 - July 17, 1931) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Arkansas. He was born in Verona, Mississippi, but moved to Pine Bluff, Arkansas, with his parents in 1887. Taylor attended public schools in Pine Bluff and studied law at Georgetown University Law School in Washington, D.C..

Taylor served as Deputy State Auditor in 1908 and served one two-year term. He was appointed Deputy Secretary of State in 1911 and later served Deputy State Treasurer from 1911 to 1912, holding both positions under Governor George Washington Donaghey. Later, Taylor acted as secretary to his father, Congressman Samuel M. Taylor from 1913 to 1921.

He was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of his father, serving from October 25, 1921 to March 3, 1923. He was not a candidate for renomination to the Sixty-eighth Congress in 1922. Taylor engaged in the general insurance business at Pine Bluff and later worked as an official in the State Department of Conservation at Little Rock. Taylor died in 1931 and is interned in Bellewood Cemetery.