Grant Taggart

  • Member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as LDS / Mormons
  • Grant Target Symposium
  • belong.naifa.org/hubfs/NAIFA_Voices_From_The_Field%20(1).pdf?hsLang=en
    • p144 – …agent for California-Western States Life at Cowley, Wyoming, was elected president of the NALU for the 1942-43 term.
    • …says Holgar Johnson. ‘He was probably the most human personality we’ve ever had in the business. A leader in the Mormon church…
  • California-Western States Life
  • Cowley, Wyoming
  • 1937 – President – MDRT, Million Dollar Round Table
    • 2013 – MDRT – Overview – 17p
  • 1942 – President – NALU, National Association of Life Underwriter, Currently NAIFA
  • 1952 – John Newton Russell Award – NALU
  • 1958 – LR – Life Insurance and Federal Taxes, by Daniel Candee Knickerbocker Jr. – 10p
    • Finally, there is the policy question. Even if Congress has not yet admitted its belief in insurance it may well do so in the future. The argument of social desirability is not wholly implausible and one can hardly foretell the result if our legislators are ever again subjected to the vehemence of that agent from Cowley, Wyoming, who once told them that any proposal to tax life insurance is dangerous, that to in any way, directly or indirectly, discourage the purchase of legal reserve life insurance … is only to dignify and encourage indolence and irresponsibility throughout our land.20 .
      • 20 Testimony of Grant Taggart, Hearings on Revenue Revision of 1942 Before the House Committee on Ways and Means, 77th Cong., 2d Sess. 2384-85 (1942)
  • 1937 0515 – The Commercial West Weekly – 36p
    • p 28 – Insurance Men Will Highlight Life Week Underwriters of Twin Cities Sponsor Big Meetings, School Essays 
      • p28 –  Feature of the breakfast, to be attended by life underwriters, will be an address by Grant Taggart of Cowley, Wyoming, chairman of the national ” Million Dollar Round Table,” whose subject will he ” The Price of Success in Life Underwriting.” Mr. Taggart is expected to put a lot of pep into the breakfast meeting and start the week off with plenty of zip.
      • Although located in a town too small to support a bank Mr. Taggart has a record of having turned in more than a million dollars a year in insurance sales for several years. This remarkable feat not only has made him a member of the famed ” Million Dollar Round Table” of national association conventions, but has brought him the distinction of being this year’s chairman. He is expected to let the Minneapolis men into some of the secrets of his success.
      • <WishList> – “The Price of Success in Life Underwriting”