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{{Infobox officeholder

| name=Nicolas Van Campen Taylor

| name=Nicolas Van Campen Taylor

| office=[[Texas]] State Senator for<br> District 8 ([[Plano]])

| office=[[U.S. Representative]]-elect for [[Texas]] District 3

| term_start= January 13, 2015

| term_=January 2019 (pending)

| preceded=[[Ken Paxton]]

| succeeded=Pending [[general election]] between [[Angela Paxton]] (R) and Mark Pharis (D)

| office2=Texas State Senator for<br> District 8 ([[Plano]])

| office2=Texas State Representative<br> for District 66

| term_start2= January 13, 2015

| term_start2=April 20, 2018

| term_end2=January 3, 2019 (pending)

| term_end2=January 13, 2015

| preceded2=[[Ken Paxton]]

| preceded2= Brian McCall

| succeeded2=[[Angela Paxton]]

| succeeded2=Matt Shaheen

| office3=Texas State Representative<br> for District 66

| term_start3=April 20, 2018

| term_end3=January 13, 2015

| preceded3= Brian McCall

| succeeded3=Matt Shaheen

| birth_date=August 1, 1972

| birth_date=August 1, 1972

| birth_place=[[Dallas]], Texas

| birth_place=[[Dallas]], Texas

}}

}}

'''Nicholas Van Campen Taylor''', known as '''Van Taylor''' (born August 1, 1972), is an [[Iraq War]] veteran and [[Texas]] [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[business]]man who is his party's nominee for the [[Texas]] District 3 seat in the [[United States House of Representatives]] in the November 6 general election. Since 2015, Taylor has been a state senator in the heavily Republican District 8. He now seeks to succeed fellow Republican Sam Johnson, who is retiring from congressional seat. From 2011 to 2015, he represented District 66 in the Texas House of Representatives.

'''Nicholas Van Campen Taylor''', known as '''Van Taylor''' (born August 1, 1972), is an [[Iraq War]] veteran and [[Texas]] [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[business]]man who is the [[U.S. Representative]]-elect for the [[Texas]] District 3 seat in the [[United States House of Representatives]] Since 2015, Taylor has been a state senator in the heavily Republican District 8. He now seeks to succeed fellow Republican Sam Johnson, who is retiring from the congressional seat. From 2011 to 2015, Taylor represented District 66 in the Texas House of Representatives.

Taylor was born in [[Dallas]], Texas, to Nicholas Cavenhove and the former Catherine Blaffer. After graduating from St. Paul's School, a preparatory school in [[Concord]], [[New Hampshire]], he graduated from [[Harvard University]] in Cambridge, [[Massachusetts]], with a degree in history. He then joined the USMC, completed infantry and intelligence training, and served as a reconnaissance platoon leader and an intelligence officer. After his four-year active duty tour ended, Taylor joined the Marine Corps Reserves. He returned to Harvard and earned a [[Master of Business Administration]] from the Harvard Business School; he then worked for McKinsey and Company and the Trammell Crow Company in Dallas until he volunteered for active duty service as a [[United States Marine Corps]] platoon leader in [[Iraq]].

Taylor was born in [[Dallas]], Texas, to Nicholas Cavenhove and the former Catherine Blaffer. After graduating from St. Paul's School, a preparatory school in [[Concord]], [[New Hampshire]], he graduated from [[Harvard University]] in Cambridge, [[Massachusetts]], with a degree in history. He then joined the USMC, completed infantry and intelligence training, and served as a reconnaissance platoon leader and an intelligence officer. After his four-year active duty tour ended, Taylor joined the Marine Corps Reserves. He returned to Harvard and earned a [[Master of Business Administration]] from the Harvard Business School; he then worked for McKinsey and Company and the Trammell Crow Company in Dallas until he volunteered for active duty service as a [[United States Marine Corps]] platoon leader in [[Iraq]].

In 2006, Taylor unsuccessfully challenged the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Chet Edwards, a [[Texas A&M University]] graduate, for Texas' 17th congressional district seat. Edwards was subsequently unseated in 2010 by the Republican [[Bill Flores]].

In 2006, Taylor unsuccessfully challenged the [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] Chet Edwards, a [[Texas A&M University]] graduate, for Texas' 17th congressional district seat. Edwards was subsequently unseated in 2010 by the Republican [[Bill Flores]].

[[Angela Paxton]], wife and political advisor of Texas Attorney General [[Ken Paxton]], is the Republican nominee in the November 6 general election to succeed Taylor in state Senate District 8. She faces the Democrat Mark Pharis in the same election in which her husband runs for reelection.

[[Angela Paxton]], wife and political advisor of Texas Attorney General [[Ken Paxton]], is the Republican state senator-elect for District 8; she will succeed Taylor in January 2019. She defeated the Democrat Mark Phariss in the same election in which her husband won a second term as attorney general.

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