Frederick Chauncey Tanner (April 7, 1878 – June 23, 1963) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.Tanner was born on April 7, 1878, in Jacksonville, Illinois, the son of Edward Allen Tanner, president of Illinois College, and Marion Lucy Brown.He taught Latin and mathematics at a high school in Pueblo, Colorado, and spent a year in ranches and mining camps in the Rocky Mountains.[3] In the 1918 United States House of Representatives election, he was the Republican candidate for New York's 17th congressional district.He also was founder and president of the Piping Rock Wild Game Bird Sanctuary in Locust Valley.