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Tanner’s Civil War Service and Political Rise Recapped
John R Tanner a war veteran from Illinois served in the Ninety eighth and then the Sixty first Infantry. He rose to sheriff circuit clerk and state offices including state treasurer and served as assistant treasurer at the U S subtreasury in Chicago. He married twice and died May 8 1801.
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John R Tanner
Governor Tanner
Ninety-eighth
Illinois Infantry
Sixty-first
Misa Lauretta i Faba
Bad County
United States
Chicago
Cora Edith English