American lawyer, son of Henry St. George Tucker; born in Winchester, VA, on the 24th of December 1823. He was educated at the University of Virginia, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1845; attorney-general for Virginia (1857–63); professor of equity and public law in Washington and Lee University (1870–74); member of Congress (1874–87), during which time he was for a while chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, and of the Judiciary Committee in the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses. He was a strong opponent of a protective tariff. He died on the 13th of February 1897, at Lexington, VA.
