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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, 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, 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.

Tudor, William

lawyer, state senator, was born March 28, 1750, in Boston, Mass. He was attached to General Washington's staff in 1775-78 as judge-advocate with the rank of colonel; was a member of both houses of the Massachusetts legislature; and in 1809-10 served as secretary of state. He died July 8, 1819, in Boston, Mass.

Tudor, William

journalist, legislator, author, was born Jan. 28, 1779, in Boston, Mass. He was a member of the Massachusetts legislature; inaugurated the ice traffic with tropical climes in 1805; and was afterwards engaged in other commercial transactions in Europe. In 1823 he was appointed consul at Lima, Peru; and in 1827 charge d'affaires to Brazil.

He published Letters on the Eastern States; Miscellanies; Life of James Otis; and Gebel Teir. He died March 9, 1830, in Rio Janeiro, Brazil.

Tufts, Charles

philanthropist, was born July 11, 1781, in Medford, Mass. He was a liberal friend of education, and gave the site and seventy acres of land to found a college at Milford Hill, near Medford, Mass. It was founded in 1853, and was named Tufts college in his honor. He died Dec. 24, 1876, in Somerville, Mass.

Tufts, Cotton

physician, was born May 30, 1734, in Medford, Mass. He was one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Massachusetts Medical society, of which he was president for some time. He died Dec. 8, 1815, in Weymouth, Mass.