In 1867 the Chairmen of the Ministers' Conference Count Richard Belcredi appointed him Upper Austrian stadtholder at Linz.
He ended his boycott of the Diet and Reichstrat in 1879, and was one of the leaders of the federalist majority supporting Count Taaffe's conservative coalition of Iron Ring.
Eduard Shevardnadze | Eduard Stiefel | Eduard Hanslick | Eduard Khil | Eduard, Duke of Anhalt | Eduard Buchner | Richard Taaffe | Julius Eduard Hitzig | Friedrich Eduard Schulz | Eduard Zeller | Eduard Tubin | Eduard Spranger | Eduard Mörike | Eduard Kuznetsov | Eduard Heis | Eduard Dietl | Eduard Brunner | Viscount Taaffe | Peter Taaffe | Nicholas Taaffe, 6th Viscount Taaffe | Eduard van Beinum | Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe | Eduard Suess | Eduard Steuermann | Eduard Sievers | Eduard Puricelli | Eduard Prchal | Eduard Pechuël-Loesche | Eduard Nalbandyan | Eduard Knoblauch |
He was born at Innsbruck, the son of Eduard Graf von Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe, who had served as Minister-President of Austria from 1879 to 1893.
Eduard Taaffe, 11th Viscount Taaffe (1833-1895), Austrian politician, died at Ellischau Castle