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.