Tucker, Beverly – Tucker, Willis Gaylord
Tucker, Beverly
journalist, was born in Virginia. He was identified with the newspaper business in Washington; was chosen superintendent of public printing in 1853; and during the rebellion participated with zeal in the cause of the southern.states.
Tucker, Ebenezer
soldier, lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1758 in New Jersey. He was a member of congress from New Jersey from 1825 to 1829; and also held the offices of judge of the common pleas, justice of the court of quarter sessions, and judge of the orphans' court. He died Sept. 5, 1845, in Tuckerton, N. J.
Tucker, Ephraim
genealogist, was born Oct. 14, 1821, in Oxford, Mass. He received a thorough education and attended the Wesleyan academy of Wilbraham, Mass. He is the author of a genealogical work on the Tucker family, and has contributed extensively to current literature numerous articles on genealogical and historical subjects, which have been incorporated in several standard works. He still contributes to many of the leading newspapers and magazines of the United States.
Tucker, Eugene A
lawyer, jurist, was born May 13, 1856, in Cortland, N. Y.
He is a successful lawyer of Humboldt, Neb.; and has been police judge, city attorney and county attorney.
Tucker, George
educator, state legislator, author, was born in 1775 in Bermuda. He was a member of the Virginia legislature; and was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1819 to 1845. He was professor of moral philosophy and political economy in the university of Virginia. He was the author of Life of Jefferson; Political History of the United States; Essays Moral and Philosophical; Theory of Money and Banks; Essays on Subjects of Taste; Principles of Rent, Wages and Profits; The Valley of the Shenandoah, a novel; and A Voyage to the Moon, a satirical romance. He died April 10, 1861, in Sherwood, Va.
Tucker, George Fox
lawyer, author, was born in 1852 in Massachusetts.
He is a lawyer of New Bedford, Mass.; and the author of Manual of Wills; Manual of Business Corporations; Manual of the Constitution of Massachusetts, the Interpretation of Statutes, Special Writs, and Motions for New Trials; The Monroe Doctrine; Notes on the United States Revised Statutes; A Quaker Home, a novel; Uncle Calup's Christmas Dinner; and Your Will: How to Make it.
Tucker, Gideon J
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born in 1827 in New York city. In 1848 he was admitted to the bar; was elected secretary of the state of New York in 1857; and in 1866 served with distinction as a member of the assembly of the New York state legislature. During 1862-70 he served as surrogate of New York city and county.
Tucker, Henry Holcombe
educator, clergyman, journalist, author, was born May 10, 1819, in Warren county, Ga.
He was the author of Religious Liberty; The Gospel in Enoch; and The Old Theology Restated in Sermons. The Position of Baptism in the Christian System is a noted sermon by him.
Tucker, Henry St. George
educator, lawyer, congressman, author, was born Dec. 29, 1780, in Williamsburg, Va.
He was at one time president of the court of appeals; and was also professor of law in the university of Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1815 to 1819. He was the author of Lectures on Natural Law and Government; Lectures on Constitutional Law; and Commentaries on the Law of Virginia. He died Aug. 28, 1848, in Winchester, Va.
Tucker, Henry St. George
soldier, author, was born in 1826 in Virginia. He was a lieutenant-colonel in the confederate army; and the author of Hansford, a Tale of Bacon's Rebellion; and The Southern Crop. He died in 1863.
Tucker, Henry St. George
lawyer, congressman, was born April 5, 1853, in Winchester, Va. Since 1876 he has practiced law in Staunton, Va. He was elected to the fifty-first, fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat. He was the author of the amendment to the constitution providing for the election of United States senators by the people, which passed the house in the fifty-second and fifty-third congresses. On the death of his father, John Randolph Tucker, he was elected to fill the chair of constitutional law and equity made vacant by his death in the Washington and Lee university. He thus became the fourth member of his family, in direct lineal succession, who has occupied that position.
Tucker, John
cabinet officer.
He was a citizen of New York; and held the position of assistant secretary of war during a part of the rebellion, receiving the appointment in 1862.
Tucker, John Randolph
soldier, educator, lawyer, congressman, was born Dec. 24, 1823, in Winchester, Va. He was a presidential elector in 1852 and 1856; and in 1857 was elected attorneygeneral of Virginia, and was re-elected in 1859 and 1863. In 1870 he was elected professor of equity and law in Washington college. He was elected a representative from Virginia to the forty-fourth congress; and was re-elected to the fortyfifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh, fortyeighth and forty-ninth congresses.
Tucker, Joseph T
soldier, lawyer, legislator, was born Aug. 31, 1833, in Boston, Mass. He was educated at Yale college. During the war he was in the confederate service as lieutenant-colonel in the seventh Kentucky cavalry, John Morgan's brigade; and was captured and confined in several prisons. He has attained success as an able lawyer of Winchester, Ky.; has been prosecuting attorney; city attorney; and has served with distinction as a member of the Kentucky state legislature for two sessions.
Tucker, Joshua Thomas
clergyman, author, was born Sept. 20, 1812, in Milton, Mass. He was a congregational clergyman of Boston; and the author of The Sinless One, a life of Christ; and Christ's Infant Kingdom. He died in 1897.
Tucker, Mrs. Margaretta
[AMES], poet. She is a verse-writer of Boston; and the author of For My Friend, a collection of verses; and Driftwood, and Other Poems.
Tucker, Nathaniel Beverly
educator, lawyer, jurist, author, was born Sept. 6, 1786, in Williamsburg, Va. He was a Virginia jurist, professor of law at William and Mary college in 1834-51; and the author of The Partisan Leader; George Balcombe, a novel; and Principles of Pleading. He died Aug. 26, 1851, in Winchester, Va.
Tucker, Nathaniel
BEVERLEY, journalist, was born June 8, 1820, in Winchester, Va. He founded the Sentinel in 1853, was elected printer to the United States senate in December of that year; and in 1857 was appointed consul to Liverpool, remaining till 1861. He died July 4, 1890, in Richmond, Va.
Tucker, Pomeroy
journalist, author, was born Aug. 10, 1802, in Palmyra, N. Y. He was a Canandaigua journalist who published a work on The Origin of Mormonism. He died June 30, 1870, in Palmyra, N. Y.
Tucker, Mrs. Sarah
Quaker preacher, born in 1779 in Portsmouth, R. I. She was a minister of the Society of Friends for thirty-seven years. Her autobiography was published under the title of Memoirs of the Life and Religious Experience of Sarah Tucker. She died in 1840.
Tucker, St. George
soldier, lawyer, jurist, state legislator, author, was born July 10, 1752, in Bermuda. He was a member of the Virginia legislature; and was one of the committee to revise the laws of Virginia. He was a professor in William and Mary college. He was judge in the state courts nearly fifty years; was a judge of the court of appeals from 1803 to 1811; and was judge of the United States district court in 1813. He was called The American Blackstone. He was the author of Letters on the Alien and Sedition Laws; The Probationary Odes of Jonathan Pindar, a collection of political satires; and an annotated Blackstone; but is known to general literature only by the lyric beginning Days of My Youth, ye have Glided Away. He died Nov. 10, 1828, in Warminster, Va.
Tucker, Starling
congressman, was born in Halifax county, N. C. He was a representative in congress from the Laurens district of South Carolina from 1817 to 1831. He died Feb. 4, 1834.
Tucker, Thomas Tudor
congressman, was born in 1745 in Bermuda. He was a patriot of the revolution; and was a delegate to the continental congress in 1787 and 1788. He was a representative in congress from South Carolina from 1789 to 1793; and was United States treasurer from 1794 to his death. He died May 2, 1828, in Washington.
Tucker, Tilghman M
congressman, governor, was born in North Carolina. He was governor of Mississippi from 1841 to 1843; and was a representative in congress from Mississippi from 1841 to 1845. He died April 30, 1859, in Alabama.
Tucker, Willis Gaylord
educator, journalist, was born Oct. 31, 1849, in Albany, N. Y. In 1881 he was one of the founders of the Albany College of Pharmacy, and became professor of chemistry, in addition to which, since 1883, he has been its president. He was appointed analyst to the state board of health in 1881; and he has been registrar of the Albany Medical college since 1882, and secretary of its Alumni association since its organization in 1874. He was editor of the Albany Medical Annals in 1882-87.