 Taylor voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960.Taylor was not a candidate for renomination in 1960 to the 87th United States Congress and retired to resume the practice of law.On September 30, 1960 at the Hendrick Hudson Hotel in Troy, N.Y., then Vice President Richard M. Nixon, campaigning for the presidency at the time, attended Taylor's retirement celebration, along with Senator Kenneth B. Keating and then New York Lieutenant Governor Malcolm Wilson.