American lawyer and author, brother of Henry St. George Tucker; born in Williamsburg, VA, on the 6th of September 1784. He was graduated at William and Mary College in 1801; studied law in Virginia until 1815, then in Missouri, where he was chosen judge of the circuit court; in 1834 was made professor of law in William and Mary College, and occupied this position until his death. He devoted much of his time to authorship, and in 1836 published the novel The Partisan Leader: A Tale of the Future, which forecast the political difficulties of the years following, including the secession movement, with considerable accuracy. It was reprinted, in 1861, under the title A Key to the Disunion Conspiracy. Among his other books are Principles of Pleading (1846); George Balcombe, a novel (1836); and Discourse on the Importance of the Study of Political Science (1840). He died on the 25th of August 1851.
