American white nationalist and anti-immigration activist (1934–2019)
John Tanton
Tanton in October 2004
Born
(1934-02-23)February 23, 1934
Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
Died
July 16, 2019(2019-07-16) (aged 85)
Petoskey, Michigan, U.S.
Alma mater
Michigan State University (BS) University of Michigan (MS, MD)
Occupation(s)
Ophthalmologist, activist
Spouse
Mary Lou Tanton
John Hamilton Tanton[1] (February 23, 1934 – July 16, 2019) was an American ophthalmologist, white nationalist,[2][3][4] and anti-immigration activist.[5] He was the founder and first chairman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti-immigration organization. He was the co-founder of the Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigration think tank; and NumbersUSA, an anti-immigration lobbying group. He was chairman of U.S. English and ProEnglish. He was briefly President of Zero Population Growth. He was the founder of The Social Contract Press, which published a quarterly journal of nativist and white nationalist writers called The Social Contract until the fall of 2019.[6] He founded the pro-eugenics organization Society for Genetic Education.
^Schudel, Matt (July 21, 2019). "John Tanton, architect of anti-immigration and English-only efforts, dies at 85". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
^Woods, Joshua; Manning, Jason; Matz, Jacob (October 2, 2015). "The Impression Management Tactics of an Immigration Think Tank". Sociological Focus. 48 (4): 354–372. doi:10.1080/00380237.2015.1064852. ISSN 0038-0237. S2CID 157399186.
^Ellis, Emma (January 14, 2017). "Fake Think Tanks Fuel Fake News". Wired. Retrieved March 13, 2018.
^Corbett, Erin (May 25, 2019). "Who Is Julie Kirchner? Anti-Immigration Activist May Head Immigration". Fortune. Archived from the original on May 25, 2019. Retrieved July 19, 2019.
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^"The Social Contract Publishes its Last Tract". Southern Poverty Law Center. April 23, 2020.
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Poverty Law Center (SPLC). Founded In the early 1990s by eugenicist JohnTanton, FAIR received funding from the Pioneer Fund, a eugenics society established...
in lost earnings and taxes, in welfare benefits and public services." JohnTanton who served as president of Zero Population Growth for several years,...
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lineshafts. The mill was run by the Tanton family for many years. A JohnTanton was the miller in 1764, and another JohnTanton died in 1837 aged 72. TQ 915...
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