1. John Hamilton Tanton was an American ophthalmologist, white nationalist, and anti-immigration activist.
16 Facts About John Tanton
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John Tanton was the founder and first chairman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, an anti-immigration organization.
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John Tanton was the co-founder of the Center for Immigration Studies, an anti-immigration think tank; and NumbersUSA, an anti-immigration lobbying group.
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John Tanton 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.
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John Tanton founded the pro-eugenics organization Society for Genetic Education.
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John Hamilton Tanton was born February 23,1934 in Detroit, Michigan.
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John Tanton's mother was a fundamentalist Christian, a member of the Evangelical United Brethren Church.
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John Tanton was the founder and patron of many anti-immigration non-profit organizations, including ProEnglish.
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John Tanton complained that he had been smeared as a racist.
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Former supporters of the group, including Walter Cronkite, Saul Bellow, and Gore Vidal, ended their association, and John Tanton resigned from his position as chairman.
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John Tanton founded the pro-eugenics organization, the Society for Genetic Education.
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John Tanton co-authored the book The Immigrant Invasion with Wayne Lutton, which was published by the Social Contract Press in 1994.
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John Tanton was for eugenics, the process of "improving the genetic quality of the human population".
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John Tanton wrote a paper in 1975 arguing for "passive eugenics" whereby child-bearing would be restricted to those between the ages of 20 and 35.
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John Tanton was married to Mary Lou John Tanton, who he met at MSU in 1956.
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John Tanton died in Petoskey, Michigan on July 16,2019.