High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nathaniel Green Taylor (1819-1887) was an American lawyer, farmer, and politician from Tennessee. He was U.S. Representative from Tennessee from 1854 to 1855, and again from 1866 to 1867, and Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1867 to 1869. He was a Whig, and then an "American" (Know Nothing), before the American Civil War, and became a Unionist during and after the war.