Tanner, John Riley
soldier, state senator, governor, was born April 4, 1844, in Warrick county, Ind. In 1863 he entered company A, ninety-eighth Illinois infantry, and served until 1865 in Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia. After the war he returned to Illinois, and purchased sixty acres of land in Clay county, which he occupied until 1870, when he was elected sheriff of Clay county. In 1880 he was elected to the Illinois state senate; was elected state treasin 1886; and subsequently was United States marshal for the southern district of Illinois. In 1896 he was elected governor of the state of Illinois. urer