Adolphus H. Tanner

Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner ( * May 23, 1833 in Granville, New York, † January 14, 1882 in Whitehall, New York) was an American officer, lawyer and politician. Between 1869 and 1871 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Adolphus Hitchcock Tanner completed his preliminary studies. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1854 and then began to practice in Whitehall in Washington County. During the Civil War he joined in 1862 as a Captain in the Union Army. He received a commission to Lieutenant Colonel in the 123rd Regiment of New York Volunteer Infantry, and served there until the end of the war.

Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. When s congressional elections of 1868 for the 41st Congress Tanner was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Augustus Griswold on March 4, 1869. He retired after March 3, 1871 from the Congress.

After his conference time he went to Whitehall again his work as a lawyer after. On January 14, 1882, he died there, and was then buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Salem.