Edmund Dick Taylor

Colonel Edmund Dick Taylor was an American businessman, politician, and soldier from Illinois. He is remembered as the first person to suggest that the United States should issue paper currency during the American Civil War.

He was born Edmund Richard Taylor in Lunenburg County, Virginia. In later years, he preferred to use his middle name rather than his first name, and used in its short form. Thus he became known as Dick Taylor, and his middle initial was written D in formal documents.

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