Senator Jack Taylor was raised on a farm in Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University.  He and his brother still own and manage the operation of their family farm which has been in the family for over 100 years.  He was in the Navy ROTC program in college and is a Navy Veteran.

His large corporation experience includes working on the Apollo Moon Landing Project with Boeing Aerospace in New Orleans, and working in Kuwait on a management team with Peat Marwick Mitchell constructing and staffing the first oil refinery in Kuwait.

Jack’s small business experience and ownership started when he moved to Steamboat Springs in 1969 and established his own real estate company, and was later a hands-on and active partner/owner/operator in a small coal mining operation.

Jack has served 8 years in the Colorado House of Representatives and 4 years in the Senate.  Senator Taylor knows and understands the issues in rural Colorado and works hard on water, tourism, skiing, small business, education, children’s issues, health insurance, home healthcare, energy, environmental, agriculture issues along with senior citizens and veterans issues.  He also has been instrumental in providing better telecommunication access in Northwest Colorado.  A quote from one of his metro peers is “he’s a bulldog on those rural concerns that might otherwise get run over by the Front Range point of view”. 

Perhaps his most unique legislative status comes from his time as an All-Conference varsity baseball player at Iowa State.  He is believed to be the only member ever of the Colorado General Assembly to have played in a College World Series.

Jack and his wife, Geneva, have one married daughter and two grandchildren.

Senator Taylor presently serves as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, is Vice Chair of the Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, and is a member of the Legislative Audit Committee, the Water Resources Review Committee and the Colorado Tourism Board.   Senator Taylor is the West Slope’s senior legislator.

“Hands on experience counts” and, over the past 12 years in the Colorado General Assembly, he has applied COMMON SENSE and BUSINESS  EXPERIENCE to pass over 80% of the legislation on which he has been prime sponsor.  He is, and will continue to be, LEGISLATIVELY EFFECTIVE.

JACK TAYLOR FOR SENATE

P. O. Box 775656

Steamboat Springs, CO  80477

Phone 970-879-3600

E-mail:  senatorjtaylor@qwest.net

Web:     senatorjacktaylor.com