Brent Taylor

Brent Taylor is a Tennessee state senator from West Tennessee who serves as Vice Chairman of the Commerce Committee and also sits on the Judiciary and Transportation committees. He was elected to the state Senate with more than 66 percent of the vote and lives in the Eads community. In 1995, at age 27, he became the youngest person ever elected to the Memphis City Council, and he left the council after 12 years to focus on his business. He later filled a vacancy on the Shelby County Commission on an interim basis and served on the Election Commission, including as chairman, until he resigned to run for the state Senate. He and his wife, Kimberly, bought their first funeral home in 2004 and grew it into the largest family-owned funeral operation in the Mid-South.

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