Politics
- Charles Albert Tanner (1887–1970), Canadian politician
- John Riley Tanner (1844–1901), former governor of Illinois
- John S. Tanner (born 1944), U.S. Congressman from Tennessee
- Lindsay Tanner (born 1956), Australian politician
- Myra Tanner Weiss (1917–1997), American communist
- Nathan Eldon Tanner (1898–1982), Alberta politician
- Väinö Tanner (1881–1966), Finnish Prime Minister
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there’s something wrong with American politics.”
—Edna Ferber (1887–1968)
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)