His long-time colleague George A. Richardson had been elected president of the bank in January of that year. Richardson suddenly committed suicide four months later, on May 21, 1931. A week later the bank failed and was placed under the authority of federal bank regulators. As the bank's books were examined, attention fell on the officers, several of whom were eventually indicted. Tayler was charged by the federal government that he embezzled at least $600,000 from the bank for himself and for companies he was invested in. He was arrested from a hospital bed in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, where doctors claimed he was suffering from a heart lesion. Tayler was ultimately convicted and sentenced to ten years in federal prison. He served four years in Leavenworth before being paroled in 1936. He returned to Green Bay and obtained employment as a bookkeeper for a grocery business, where he worked until age 93. Personal life and family J. H. Tayler was the youngest of at least six children born to Joseph Tayler and his wife Melissa Victorine ( Kennan). J. H. Tayler married Eleanor J. Richardson on June 27, 1889. They had two children together, though their first child died in infancy. Taylor lived to age 100, dying at his home in Green Bay on May 25, 1959. Electoral history Green Bay Mayor (1902) | colspan="6" style="text-align:center;background-color: #e9e9e9;"| General Election, April 1, 1902 External links References 1859 births 1959 deaths Mayors of Green Bay, Wisconsin Wisconsin Republicans American centenarians Men centenarians American bank presidents American white-collar criminals