Adolphus H. Tanner
{{Short description|American politician (1833–1882)}}
{{infobox officeholder
|name=Adolphus H. Tanner
|image=Adolphus H. Tanner (U.S. Congressman from New York).jpg
|caption=Tanner as a Union army officer {{circa|1865}}
|birth_name=Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner
|birth_date={{birth date|1833|5|23}}
|birth_place=Granville, New York, U.S.
|death_date={{death date and age|1882|1|14|1833|5|23}}
|death_place=Whitehall, New York, U.S.
|resting_place=Evergreen Cemetery, Salem, New York, U.S.
|party=Republican
|occupation=Politician, lawyer
|allegiance=United States
|branch=United States Army (Union army)
|rank=Lieutenant colonel
|unit=123rd New York Infantry Regiment
|battles=American Civil War
}}
Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner (May 23, 1833 – January 14, 1882) was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Biography
Born in Granville, Washington County, New York, Tanner completed preparatory studies. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice in Whitehall, New York.
During the Civil War, Tanner entered the Union Army in 1862 as a captain in command of Company C, 123rd New York Volunteer Infantry Regiment. He was promoted through the ranks, and was the regiment's lieutenant colonel and second in command at the close of the war.
Tanner was elected as a Republican 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.
References
{{CongBio|T000037}} Retrieved on 2009-05-01
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=qGEUAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22adolphus+h+tanner%22+whitehall&pg=PA9 Reminiscences of the 123d Regiment, N.Y.S.V] by Henry C. Morhous
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years=1869–1871
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Category:People of New York (state) in the American Civil War
Category:New York (state) lawyers
Category:People from Granville, New York
Category:People from Whitehall, New York
Category:19th-century American lawyers
Category:19th-century New York (state) politicians
Category:19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives