David Arthur Taggart (1858 - 1922)
Born at Goffstown (NH); died at Manchester (NH).
Lawyer, state legislator.
Portrait by Daniel Strain, n.d., after photograph.
Presented to State, 1890-1895.

Taggart (1858 - 1922) was born at Goffstown (NH). He attended Manchester High School and Harvard College (Class of 1878). Taggart then read law with Judge David Cross at Manchester. He was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1881, and was a law partner with Judge Cross (1881 - 1885).

Taggart was elected to the State House of Representatives in 1883, where, at age twenty-five, he chaired the Committee on Elections. He was elected President of the State Senate in 1889, and he served as Acting Governor for the ailing Governor Goodell (1889 - 1891) at the request of the State Supreme Court. He was the Republican Party's 1890 candidate for the United States House of Representatives, but lost the election; after that Taggart concentrated on his Manchester law practice.

Reference: Granite Monthly vol. XII no. 9-10 (Sept. - Oct. 1889); George H. Moses, ed., New Hampshire Men (1893); H. H. Metcalf, ed., New Hampshire Notables (1919).