George Tucker (politician)

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George Tucker (born August 20, 1775 in Bermuda , †  April 10, 1861 in Sherwood , Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1819 and 1825 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Tucker was the cousin of Congressman Henry St. George Tucker (1780–1848). Nothing is known about his early school education. He came to Virginia around 1790. By 1797 he graduated from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession in Richmond . He later moved to Pittsylvania County , where he served intermittently as a district attorney. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In 1815 he was elected to the Virginia House of Representatives. From 1818 he practiced as a lawyer in Lynchburg .

In the 1818 congressional election , Tucker was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 15th  constituency of Virginia , where he succeeded William J. Lewis on March 4, 1819 . After two re-elections, he was able to complete three legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1825 . From 1823 he represented the sixth district of his state there as the successor to Alexander Smyth . Since 1821, Tucker was chairman of the War Department's Expenditure Control Committee.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives Tucker was appointed by former President Thomas Jefferson as a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville ; Jefferson was the head of that college at the time. He held this post until 1845. Then he moved to Philadelphia . George Tucker has also appeared as the author of numerous non-fiction books in the fields of history, finance, and economics and banking. He died on April 10, 1861 in Sherwood of an accident in which a bale of cotton fell on his head while being loaded onto a ship.

Publications

  • Atterley, Joseph (pseud.): A Voyage to the Moon: with some Account of the Manners and Customs, Science and Philosophy, of the people of Morosofia, and other Lunarians. New York: Elam Bliss, 1827

Web links

Wikisource: A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature / Tucker, George  - Sources and full texts (English)
personal data
SURNAME Tucker, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1775
PLACE OF BIRTH Bermuda
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1861
Place of death Sherwood , Virginia