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

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, 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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During the Civil War

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, Tanner entered the Union Army

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 in 1862 as a captain. He was subsequently commissioned lieutenant colonel

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 of the One Hundred and Twenty-third Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry, and served until the close of the war.

Tanner was elected as a Republican

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 to the Forty-first Congress

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 (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1871). He resumed the practice of law in Whitehall, New York, and died there January 14, 1882. He was interred in Evergreen Cemetery, Salem, New York

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