and militia officer Taliaferro Preston Shaffner, 19th-century self-proclaimed colonel, inventor and publisher Middle name It is the middle name of the following persons: William Close (William Taliaferro Close), late surgeon who worked in Africa, father of actress Glenn Close Robert M. T. Hunter (Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter), U.S. Senator and Confederate Secretary of State Booker T. Jones (Booker Taliaferro Jones, Jr.), musician, composer, frontman for Booker T. and the MGs Sam Rayburn (Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn), 20th-century Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives John T. Thompson (John Taliaferro Thompson), early 20th-century U.S. Army officer who invented Thompson submachine gun George T. Ward, (George Taliaferro Ward), planter and politician from Florida and a colonel in the Confederate army during the American Civil War Booker T. Washington (Booker Taliaferro Washington), postbellum African-American political leader, educator, orator, author, and ex-slave Surname It is the surname of the following persons: Taliaferro Adam Taliaferro, college football player severely injured during a game Al Taliaferro, comic-strip artist Benjamin Taliaferro, early 19th-century U.S. Representative from Georgia Chris Taliaferro, Chicago alderman Edith Taliaferro, actress George Taliaferro, NFL player Gabriëlle Andrée Iglesias Velayos y Taliaferro, garden designer and landscape architect Hardin E. Taliaferro, humorist and Baptist preacher James G. Taliaferro, 19th-century lawyer, newspaper publisher, and judge in Louisiana James P. Taliaferro, early 20th-century U.S. Senator from Florida John Taliaferro, antebellum U.S. Representative from Virginia Lawrence Taliaferro, United States frontier agent Lorenzo Taliaferro, former running back for the Baltimore Ravens Mabel Taliaferro, actress Ray Taliaferro, radio host Richard Taliaferro, colonial architect in Williamsburg, Virginia R. Catesby Taliaferro, philosopher and mathematician Walter R. Taliaferro, pioneer U.S. Army aviator William B. Taliaferro, Confederate States of America general Tolliver/Toliver Anthony Tolliver, basketball player Billy Joe Tolliver, football player Charles Tolliver, musician and composer David Tolliver, singer/songwriter/producer Don Toliver, American rapper Melba Tolliver, journalist Mose Tolliver, primitive artist Places Camp Taliaferro, San Diego, CA, Named for US Army pilot Walter R. Taliaferro Camp Taliaferro, Texas, United States, named for Walter R. Taliaferro T. C. Taliaferro House, Florida, United States Taliaferro County, Georgia, United States, named for Benjamin Taliaferro Willis Hall, formerly known as Taliaferro Hall, College of William and Mary, Virginia, United States Taliaferro Hall, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, United States, Named for Thomas Hardy Taliaferro. Dean/College of Engineering; Dean/College of Arts and Sciences Fictional characters Tulliver Maggie Tulliver, in George Eliot's classic novel, The Mill on the Floss, a dark-complexioned miller's