Person:Henry Tucker (16)

Augusta County, Virginia, 1880 census:^[2]

Tucker, St. Geo. 27 yrs Lawyer b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia)

      Hennie 22 yrs Wife Keeping House b. Virginia (parents, b. New York)

      Jno. R. 7/12 yr (Nov.) Son b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia)

Rockbridge County, Virginia, 1900 census:^[3]

Tucker, Henry St. G. Head 47 yrs (b. Apr 1853) (wid.) b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia) Professor (W. & L. U. [Washington & Lee Univ])

      John Son 20 yrs (b. Oct 1879) b. Virginia (parents, b. New York) At School

      Rosa J. Dau 19 yrs (b. Nov 1880) b. Virginia (parents, b. New York)

      Albert Sidney Son 14 yrs (b. Nov 1886) b. Virginia (parents, b. New York) At School

      Laura P. Dau 7 yrs (b. Dec 1892) b. Virginia (parents, b. New York) At School

      Henry St. G. Son 4 yrs (b. Jun 1895) b. Virginia (parents, b. New York)

      Henrietta B. Dau 4 yrs (b. Jun 1895) b. Virginia (parents, b. New York)

Franklin, Hattie [BLACK] Servant 27 yrs (b. May 1877) (single) b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia) "Tenant"

Rockbridge County, Virginia, 1910 census:^[4]

Tucker, Harry St. G. Head 57 yrs (marr. 2nd. __ yrs) b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia) Lawyer

      Martha S. Wife 49 yrs (marr. 2nd; 0 ch) b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. England/Pennsylvania)

      Laura P. Dau 17 yrs b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia/New York)

      Harry St. G. Son 14 yrs b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia/New York)

      Henrietta P. Dau 14 yrs b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia/New York)

Rockbridge County, Virginia, 1920 census:^[5]

Tucker, Harry St. G. Head 64 yrs b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia) Farmer (General Farm)

      Martha S. Wife 62 yrs b. Pennsylvania (parents, b. Pennsylvania)

      Henrietta Dau 23 yrs b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia)

Burgess, Norman W. Roomer 24 yrs b. Maryland (parents, b. Virginia) Assistant Clerk (County Clerk)

Rockbridge County, Virginia, 1930 census:^[6]

Tucker, Henry St. G. Head 77 yrs (1st marr. at 24 yrs) b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia) Congressman (U.S. Congress)

      Mary W. Wife 55 yrs (1st marr. at 55 yrs) b. Virginia (parents, b. Virginia/Maryland)

Passenger List, S.S. Cristobal, sailing from Cristobal, C.Z., Mar 17, 1929. arriving at New York, Mar 25, 1929.

No.13. Tucker, Henry St. G. Age 75 yrs. Born 5 Apr 1853 Winchester, Va. Residence: Lexington, Ky.

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Find A Grave.

   Henry St. George Tucker

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 Augusta, Virginia, United States. 1880 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 10, p. 41A, dwelling/family 32/36 (321 Frederick).
3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Rockbridge, Virginia, United States. 1900 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 97, p. 14A, dwelling/family 281/282.
4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 Rockbridge, Virginia, United States. 1910 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 110, p. 15A, dwelling/family 299/342 (E. Washington).
5. ↑ ^5.0 5.1 Rockbridge, Virginia, United States. 1920 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 121, p. 15A, dwelling/family 313/364.
6. ↑ ^6.0 6.1 Rockbridge, Virginia, United States. 1930 U.S. Census Population Schedule
   ED 6, p. 21B, dwelling/family 453/545.
7.   Seventy-Second Congress, Second Sesion (Serial Set Vol. No.9679) House.Doc. 570
   1 Jan 1933.

   Memorial services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Henry St. George Tucker, late a Representative from Virginia, Seventy-second Congress, second... Sunday, January 1, 1933 (Serial Set Vol. No.9679) H.Doc. 570, pp. ____.
   
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   Henry St. George Tucker
   
   Remarks by Representative Bland of Virginia.
   
   
   Mr. Bland: Mr. Speaker, Henry St. George Tucker was born in Winchester, Frederick County, Va., on April 5, 1853, and died at his home in Lexington, Va., on July 23, 1932. His parents were John Randolph Tucker and Laura (Powell) Tucker.
   
   Mr. Tucker was descended from a family which for 300 years had held positions of first importance in the Bermuda Islands and in Virginia. His family is traced in England to William Tucker, of Thornby, County Dwin. [sic] Two of the family were much interested in the English settlement at Jamestown. One of these, George Tucker, was a member of the London Company; and the other, Daniel Tucker, after living in Virginia, became in 1616 Governor of Bermuda.
   
   From this line came Mr. Tucker's great-grandfather, St. George Tucker, who came to Virginia about 1770. He became a student at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Va., and entered later upon the practice of law. When the Revolutionary War commenced, he conducted a secret and successful expedition to Bermuda, where he captured military stores, which he brought home and which were used by General Washington at Boston.
   
   Later he became a colonel in the American Army, distinguished himself by his courage and conduct at Guilford Courthouse, and took an active part in the siege of Yorktown. He served as one of the commissioners at the Annapolis Convention which recommended the Philadelphia convention, where the Constitution of the United States was framed.
   
   Afterwards, St. George Tucker became professor of law in the College of William and Mary, where he succeeded the eminent chancellor and first American law teacher, George Wythe. He also served with distinction as judge of the general court of Virginia. He married Frances Bland Randolph, widow of John Randolph and mother of John Randolph, of Roanoke.
   
   The name "St. George" in the Tucker family originated with George Tucker, who emigrated, during the civil war in England, to Bermuda, and died there about 1662. He married Frances, daughter of Sir Henry St. George, Knight of the Garter and principal king of arms, whence the name.
   
   Henry St. George Tucker, son of St. George Tucker and grandfather of the subject of this sketch, served as a Member of the House in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Congresses from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1819, when he retired voluntarily, thereafter becoming chancellor of the fourth judicial district of Virginia, where he served from 1824 to 1831. Then he became president of the court of appeals of Virginia. He filled this position until 1841, when he was appointed professor of law at the University of Virginia.
   
   John Randolph Tucker, father of our late colleague, served from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1887, as a Member of the House in the Forty, fourth, Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses, declining to be a candidate for renomination in 1886/ He was elected professor of constitutional law at Washington and Lee University in 1888, and filled that position until his death in Lexington on February 13, 1897.
   
   Another relative of Mr. Tucker's served as a Member of the House from the State of South Carolina in the First and Second Congresses. This was Thomas Tudor Tucker, uncle of Mr. Tucker's grandfather. He was born at Port Royal, Bermuda, June 25, 1745, served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary Army, was a Member of Congress from March 4, 1789, to March 2, 1793, and was appointed United States Treasurer by Thomas Jefferson, serving from December 1, 1801, until his death, on May 2, 1828.
   
   George Tucker, another relative, born in the St. Georges, Bermuda, served in the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Congresses, from March 4, 1819, to March 3, 1825. He was appointed by Thomas Jefferson as first professor of moral philosophy at the University of Virginia, that chair then embracing finance and economics.
   
   Henry St. George Tucker, whose loss we lament, was the third in direct line to serve in the House of Representatives of the United States. Here he spent 18-1/3 years of his useful, busy life. His services began on March 4, 1889, in the Fifty-first Congress, and he continued as a Member through the Fifty-second, Fifty-third, and Fifty-fourth Congresses, retiring voluntarily on March 3, 1897. He returned to the Sixty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Hon. Henry D. Flood. He qualified on March 25, 1922, and continued as a Member to the time of his death.
   
   Mr. Tucker came from a line of lawyers, teachers, jurists, and authors. He was the fourth in direct line in his family to serve as professor of law. His great-grandfather, St. George Tucker,was professor of law at the College of William and Mary, succeeding the eminent teacher George Wythe. His grandfather, Henry St. George Tucker, was professor of law at the University of Virginia from 1841 to 1845. His father, John Randolph Tucker, was professor of equity and public law at Washington and Lee University before he served in Congress and was again in 1888 elected professor of constitutional law at Washington and Lee University. That position he filled until his death in 1897.
   
   Mr. Tucker also came of a line of authors. His grandfather, Henry St. George Tucker, was the author of Tucker's Commentaries, and Treatises on Natural Law, and on the Formation of the Constitution of the United States, which were textbooks at the University of Virginia. His father, John Randolph Tucker, was author of Tucker on the Constitution.
   
   Mr. Tucker also came of a line of jurists. His great-grandfather, St. George Tucker, served as a judge of the general court before his appointment as professor of law in the College of William and Mary. In 1803 he was elected to succeed President Pendleton on the bench of the court of appeals of Virginia. Here he served with distinction until he resigned in 1811. In 1813 he accepted the position tendered him by President Madison as judge of the district court of the United States. This position he held for many years until ill health compelled his resignation.
   
   Mr. Tucker's grandfather, Henry St. George Tucker, served for seven years as judge of the superior courts of chancery for the Winchester and Clarksburg districts, and in 1831 was elected president of the court of appeals of Virginia, where he remained until August, 1841, when he resigned to become professor of law at the University of Virginia.
   
   It is not surprising that, with this background, our colleague became a teacher of law and also an author. In 1897 he was elected professor of constitutional law and equity in Washington and Lee University to succeed his father, John Randolph Tucker, and was dean of the law school of that university in 1900. After G. W. C. Lee retired from the presidency of the university, Mr. Tucker served as president for a time, but in 1902 he resigned his chair at Washington and Lee and accepted an invitation to become dean of the schools of law and diplomacy at Columbian University, now the George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
   
   Mr. Tucker was also an author of distinction. He edited Tucker on the Constitution, of which his father was the author, and wrote Woman Suffrage by Constitutional Amendment, and Limitations on the Treaty Making Power under the Constitution, as well as many treatises and papers.
   
   The attainments of Mr. Tucker and his father were nationally recognized. The father served as president of the American Bar Association in 1894, and Mr. Tucker was president of the same association in 1905. The University of Mississippi and Columbian University at Washington conferred upon Mr. Tucker the degrees of doctor of laws.
   
   When Mr. Tucker first served in Congress, Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, was Speaker and among Mr. Tucker's colleagues in the House were such outstanding men in political life as William M. Springer, of Illinois; John G. Carlisle, of Kentucky; Samuel S. Cox and Amos J. Cummings, of New York City; Roger Q. Mills, of Texas; Charles F. Crisp, of Georgia; William McKinley, of Ohio; Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio; and Joseph G. Cannon, of Illinois.
   
   In the Senate were John W. Daniel and John S. Barbour from his own State of Virginia; John T. Morgan, of Alabama; Wade Hampton, of South Carolina; Daniel W. Voorhees, of Indiana' William B. Allison, of Iowa; Arthur Pue Gorman, of Maryland; George G. Vest, of Missouri; Zebulon B. Vance, of North Carolina; John Sherman, of Ohio; and Isham G. Harris, of Tennessee. Among his colleagues in the House from Virginia were Charles T. O'Farrall, later governor of the State; George D. Wise, William H. F. Lee, Paul C. Edmonds, and John A Buchanan, of Abingdon.
   
   For four years of the first eight years of Mr. Tucker's service in the House he was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. This committee was then handling critical matters in our foreign relations. Upon Mr. Tucker's return in 1922, he was placed upon the Committee on Education which was the only vacancy then existing. Mr Tucker was peculiarly qualified for this work by experience and training, for while he was out of Congres he had been engaged in educational work, and he had canvassed Virginia in behalf of an improved school system in the State. In this way Mr. Tucker contributed materially to the splendid progress made in eduction in Virginia during recent years.
   
   Soon after Mr. Tucker returned to Congress in 1922, the Congress recognized the need for his experience and legal attainments and qualifications in the work of the Committee on the Judiciary. Accordingly, though the committee consisted of its full complement, the Congress adopted a resolution enlarging the committee membership for the sole purpose of creating a place on the committee for Mr. Tucker, and he served with distinction on this committee until the time of his death.
   
   Mr. Tucker was identified with the political life of Virginia from his earliest manhood until his death. Though unsuccessful in his efforts in 1909 and again in 1921 to secure the Democratic nomination for the office of governor of that State, he numbered his friends by the thousands, and those who had once become his friends never forgot him. He radiated comradeship, good cheer, happiness, and sunshine wherever he went, and his political campaigns were always of the highest order. He disdained the wiles of the politician; and the frank, manly statement of his position on all public matters won for him friends by the thousands, who were willing always to follow where he left.
   
   Mr. Tucker's services were so great, his life so useful, his talents so many, and his personal charm so indescribable that the limitations of a sketch such as this afford no opportunity to touch all the high points.
   
   If called upon to name the outstanding quality in Mr. Tucker's political life, I should answer without hesitation that it was his political courage. He never compromised a principle. He never truckled to expediency. He stood always foursquare to every wind that blew, and planted himself immovably upon the Constitution of this country.
   
   His political courage and refusal to sacrifice principle to expediency received the acid test in 1896 when the Democratic Party espoused the cause of free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. The nomination was Mr. Tucker's if he would accept it upon the terms of voting for free silver. Mr. Tucker refused to accept upon those terms and lost the nomination. Mr. Tucker stood by his party but refused to sacrifice his principles.
   
   While in Congress during the last period of his service, the salaries of Members of Congress were increased to take effect at the beginning of the next fiscal year. True to his conviction that Congress should not increase the salaries of Members during the term for which they had been elected, he refused to accept this increase in salary for the remainder of the term, but returned it to the Treasury. In doing this he followed the example set in 1816 by his illustrious grandfather of the same name.
   
   During the period of Mr. Tucker's service in Congress he was the author of the seventeenth amendment which provided for the election of United States Senators by the people, and of the bill known as the "Tuck bill," which repealed all Federal statutes which interfered with elections in the States. These laws had been enacted after the War between the States.
   
   Mr. Tucker rendered national service of the highest order as President of the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, succeeding in that position Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, whose death at the critical period of preparation seriously threatened the celebration. President Roosevelt appointed Mr. Tucker as General Lee's successor, and the exposition was successfully held under his direction and supervision.
   
   Mr. Tucker married in 1877 Miss Henrietta Preston Johnston, who died in 1900, and there survived him by this marriage three sons and three daughters -- John Randolph Tucker, of Richmond; Mrs. Rosa Johnston Mason, of Lexington; Maj. Albert Sidney Johnston Tucker, of the United States Army; Mrs. Laura Powell Fletcher, wife of Prof. Forest Fletcher, of Lexington; Harry St. George Tucker, of Lexington, Ky.; and Mrs. Henrietta Preston White, wife of Dr. T. Preston White, of Charlotte, N.C.
   
   In 1903 Mr. Tucker married Miss Martha Sharpe, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., who died February 18, 1928, and on June 26, 1929, he married Miss Mary Jane Williams, of Culpeper, Va., who survived him.
   
   Mr. Tucker was an orator of ability an a political speaker of peculiar force. His services were in frequent demand, and his speeches were remembered and quoted long after they had been delivered.
   
   Mr. Tucker was one of the happiest mortals who ever lived. He was always sustained by a beautiful Christian faith. Hatred, animosity, and revenge found no place in his life.
   
   He was always full of humor and good cheer. He loved mankind, and he was loved by his fellow men. His life was an inspiration to all who knew him. His death left a void which can not be filled.