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.