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(the) electorate. The dominion of a Prince-elector in the Holy Roman Empire until 1806. George Edwin Taylor was the first person of African descent to officially run for president of the United States (August 4, 1857 – December 23, 1925) was an American journalist, activist, and politician, who was the candidate of the National Negro Liberty Party / BORN of free Woman the legal doctrine of Partus sequitur ventrem (L. “That which is brought forth follows the belly”; also partus) was used from 1662 in Virginia and later other English By the time he surfaced in Iowa, Taylor had affiliated with the Republican Party. He arrived in Iowa as a community organizer and a Republican Party promoter. His focus changed from "labor" to "race" in a time when the nation was increasing focusing on the issues of race and the "Negro Problem." In this two-decade period, Taylor owned and operated a newspaper (the Negro Solicitor) and a farm, served two terms as a local Justice of the Peace (judge), transitioned from Republican to Democrat to Independent and back to Democrat, and was a policeman Taylor also was a Mason and had attended a national meeting of Masons in Jacksonville, Florida in 1900 as the president of Iowa's Prince Hall Masons.In 1892, Taylor was positioned to play a major role as an Independent Republican. He, along with Frederick Douglass and Charles Ferguson, carried recommendations from Black Independent Republicans The National Negro Democratic League was fractured by the debate over the issue of linking the nation's currency to silver as well as to gold. It was a time when lynching was creeping northward and when scientific racism was gaining acceptance