{"id":1968,"date":"2012-09-21T11:18:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T18:18:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1968"},"modified":"2017-03-31T08:32:32","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T15:32:32","slug":"tanner-john-thomas-1820-1899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1968","title":{"rendered":"TANNER, JOHN THOMAS, 1820-1899"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Businessman, elected official; political activist. Born&#8211; Aug. 25, 1820 in Madison Co., Ala. Parents&#8211; Samuel and Margaret Tanner. Married&#8211; Susan Owen Wilson, Nov. 26, 1846. Children&#8211; Seven. Education&#8211; attended school in Athens, Ala. Began his career as a clerk in his father&#8217;s store in Athens at the age of thirteen; in cotton business in New Orleans and Shreveport, 1842-1847;\u00a0banker in Athens, 1847-1852;\u00a0helped found the \u00a0North and South Railroad (later L&amp;N) during the Civil War and worked for the railroad for twenty-five years; U.S. revenue collector, 1866-1867; real estate and immigration agent. Mayor of Athens for five consecutive terms. Member of the\u00a0\u00a0Board of Trustees for Athens Female College, 1842-1892; president of the Board, 1880-1892. \u00a0Helped organize the Alabama State Temperance Alliance, 1881; served as its chairman and secretary; vice-president of the National Temperance Society.\u00a0\u00a0Nominated 1886 as Prohibition candidate for governor, and in 1888 for vice president. Died June 15, 1899.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tanner&#8217;s History of Athens&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Elva Bell McLin, Athens State College: A Definitive History, 1821-1991.\u00a0 Huntsville:\u00a0 Athens State College Foundation, 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Sellers, James Benson.\u00a0 The Prohibition Movement in Alabama, 1702 to 1943.\u00a0 Chapel Hill:\u00a0 University of North Carolina Press, 1943.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>History of Athens, and Incidentally Limestone County, Alabama, 1825-1876. University, Ala.; Confederate Pub. Co., 1978.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Businessman, elected official; political activist. Born&#8211; Aug. 25, 1820 in Madison Co., Ala. Parents&#8211; Samuel and Margaret Tanner. Married&#8211; Susan Owen Wilson, Nov. 26, 1846. Children&#8211; Seven. Education&#8211; attended school in Athens, Ala. Began his career as a clerk in his father&#8217;s store in Athens at the age of thirteen; in cotton business in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1968"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6456,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1968\/revisions\/6456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}