Henry St. George Tucker III

Henry St. George Tucker (1896)

Henry St. George Tucker III (born April 5, 1853 in Winchester , Virginia , †  July 23, 1932 in Lexington , Virginia) was an American politician . Between 1889 and 1897 and again between 1922 and 1932 he represented the state of Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Henry Tucker came from a well-known family of politicians. He was the son of Congressman John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) and grandson of Henry St. George Tucker Sr. (1780-1848), who also sat in Congress . Tucker attended private schools in Richmond and Middleburg . After a subsequent law degree at Washington and Lee University and his admission as a lawyer in 1876, he began to work in Staunton in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party .

In the 1888 congressional election , Tucker was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of Virginia , where he succeeded Jacob Yost on March 4, 1889 . After three re-elections, he was able to complete four legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1897 . In 1896 he was no longer nominated for re-election by his party.

In 1897 Tucker became a professor of constitutional law at Washington and Lee University. In 1900 he became dean of the university. Five years later, he also became the Dean of Law and Diplomacy at George Washington University in Washington. From 1905 to 1907 he served as president of the Jamestown Exposition Co. He also headed the American Bar Association in 1905 . In 1909 and 1921 he ran unsuccessfully within his party for nomination as the top candidate for the gubernatorial elections in Virginia.

After the death of MP Henry D. Flood , Tucker was re-elected to the US House of Representatives as his successor in the due by-election for the tenth seat of Virginia, where he took up his new mandate on March 21, 1922. After four re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on July 23, 1932. His last years there were shaped by the events of the Great Depression since 1929 .

Web links

• Henry St. George Tucker III in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry St. George Tucker III in the database of Find a Grave (English)