Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner (May 23, 1833 – January 14, 1882) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
New York
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Biography
Born in
Granville,
Washington County, New York
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, Tanner completed preparatory studies. He studied law, and was
admitted to the bar
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in 1854 and commenced practice in
Whitehall, New York
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The Town of Whitehall contains a village also named Whitehall.
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During the
Civil War
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, Tanner entered the
Union Army
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in 1862 as a
captain
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in command of Company C,
123rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was promoted through the ranks, and was the regiment's
lieutenant colonel
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and second in command at the close of the war.
Tanner was elected as a
Republican
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to the
Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1871). He resumed the practice of law in Whitehall, and died there on January 14, 1882. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery,
Salem, New York
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.
References
Retrieved on 2009-05-01
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Reminiscences of the 123d Regiment, N.Y.S.V' by Henry C. Morhous
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1833 births
1882 deaths
People of New York (state) in the American Civil War
New York (state) lawyers
People from Granville, New York
Union Army officers
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
People from Whitehall, New York
19th-century American legislators
19th-century American lawyers