Notable Descendants
Tucker became the first of many generations of legal scholars and politicians who would a notable impact on Virginia.
Tucker's youngest step-son, John Randolph of Roanoke (1773-1833), served as House majority leader and chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, as well a US Senator representing Virginia, and later America's ambassador to Russia.
Tucker's son Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. (1780-1848) served in both the state legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as President of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, and later declined an appointment by Andrew Jackson to become U.S. Attorney General.
Tucker's second son, Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1784-1851) was a professor of law at William & Mary and published works on political economy as well as literature.
His grandson, John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897), served as Virginia's attorney general, as well as U.S. congressman and Dean of Washington and Lee University School of Law.
His grandson, Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (1820-1890), was a newspaper editor in Washington, D.C. before the Civil War, U.S. counsel at Liverpool, England, and later the Confederate States' "economic agent abroad."
His great-grandson, Henry St. George Tucker, III (1853-1932), served in U.S. House of Representatives, as Dean of Washington and Lee University School of Law and later of the George Washington University Law School.
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