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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.