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176 intended to Prepare the Student for the Study of the Constitution of the United States&rdquo; (Philadelphia, 1845); and &ldquo;Principles of Pleading&rdquo; (Boston, 1846). He left an unfinished life of his half-brother, John Randolph of Roanoke. He wrote a great number of political and miscellaneous essays, and was a large contributor to the &ldquo;Southern Literary Messenger,&rdquo; of Richmond, Va., and to the &ldquo;Southern Quarterly Review.&rdquo; He also maintained an extensive correspondence with scholars and politicians, and the influence of his mind was felt by all such with whom he came in contact. &mdash; Henry St. George's son, Nathaniel Beverley, journalist, b. in Winchester, Va.. 8 June, 1820, was educated at the University of Virginia, founded the Washington &ldquo;Sentinel&rdquo; in 1853, was elected printer to the U. S. senate in December of that year, and in 1857 was appointed consul to Liverpool, remaining till 1861. He was sent by the Confederate government in 1862 to England and France, and in 1863-'4 to Canada, to obtain commissary supplies. He went to Mexico after the civil war closed, was there till Maximilian's reign came to an end, then returned to the United States, and has since resided in Washington, D. C., and Berkeley Springs, W. Va. &mdash; Another son, John Randolph, statesman, b. in Winchester, Va., 24 Dec., 1823, received his early education at a private school near his home, entered Richmond academy, and finished his studies at the University of Virginia, where he was graduated in law in 1844. He was admitted to the bar in 1845, and began the practice of his profession in Winchester. He was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1852 and 1856, was elected attorney-general of Virginia in May, 1857, to fill an unexpired term, and was re-elected in 1859 and in 1863. He was dispossessed of this office by the results of the war. He was elected professor of equity and public law in Washington and Lee university, Lexington, in 1870, and continued in this office until he was elected in 1874 to congress, of which he was a member till 1887. He was for a short time chairman of the ways and means committee, and was a member of that committee for eight years. He was chairman of the judiciary committee in the 48th and 49th congresses. Mr. Tucker is an orator of much power, and has taken an active part in the debates on the tariff, in opposition to the protective policy. His speeches on other questions include those on the electoral commission bill, the constitutional doctrine as to the presidential count, the Hawaiian treaty in 1876, the use of the army at the polls, in 1879, and Chinese emigration, in 1883. He delivered an address before the Social science association in 1877, and one in 1887 before the law-school of Yale, which in that year gave him the degree of LL. D. &mdash; Another son,, was a lawyer by profession, and was clerk of the Virginia legislature. He joined the Confederate army, held a lieutenant-colonel's commission, and died from exposure in the seven days' battles around Richmond. He was the author of &ldquo;Hansford: a Tale of Bacon's Rebellion&rdquo; (Richmond, 1853); &ldquo;The Southern Crop&rdquo;; and the dedicatory poem of Washington's equestrian statue at Richmond. &mdash; Their kinsman, John Randolph, naval officer, b. in Alexandria, Va., 31 Jan., 1812; d. in Petersburg, Va., 12 June, 1883. He received his early education in his native city, and on 1 June, 1826, entered the U. S. navy as a midshipman. He became lieutenant, 20 Dec., 1837, served as executive officer on board the bomb-brig &ldquo;Stromboli&rdquo; during the war with Mexico, and participated in the capture of Tabasco and other naval operations. During

the latter part of the war Tucker succeeded to the command of the vessel. On 14 Sept., 1855, he received his commission as a commander, and was ordered to take charge of the receiving-ship &ldquo;Pennsylvania&rdquo; at Norfolk. His next post was that of ordnance-officer of the Norfolk navy-yard. He resigned his commission on 18 April, 1861, after the passage by Virginia of a secession ordinance, and on 21 April was appointed a commander in the Virginia navy. On 22 April he was directed by Gov. Letcher to &ldquo;conduct the naval defences of James river,&rdquo; but on 3 June he was ordered to the command of the steamer &ldquo;Yorktown,&rdquo; which afterward became the &ldquo;Patrick Henry.&rdquo; When Virginia joined the Confederate states, Tucker, with all other officers of the state navy, was transferred to the Confederate service with the same rank he had held in the U. S. navy. The &ldquo;Patrick Henry&rdquo; participated in the various conflicts in Hampton Roads, including the battle between the &ldquo;Merrimac&rdquo; and the &ldquo;Monitor&rdquo; on 9 March, and on the 13th Tucker was placed in command of the wooden fleet. Soon after the repulse of the National squadron at Drewry's Bluff, in which his vessel took part, Tucker was promoted on 13 May, 1863, to the rank of captain, and ordered to Charleston, S. C., where he commanded the Confederate naval forces as flag-officer of the station. When Charleston was evacuated in February, 1865, Capt. Tucker returned to Drewry's Bluff, organized the naval brigade, and commanded it there until Richmond was evacuated, when he reported to Gen. Robert E. Lee, and was attached to Custis Lee's division of Gen. Swell's corps, which formed the rear-guard of the Confederate army on the retreat from Richmond. In 1866 Capt. Tucker was appointed to the command of the Peruvian navy with the rank of rear-admiral. During the war between Peru, Chili, and Spain he commanded the combined fleets of the two republics. When that war ceased, his rank and emoluments were continued, and he was made president of the Peruvian hydrographic commission of the Amazon. His last service was the exploration and survey of the upper Amazon and its tributaries. In a short time he returned to Petersburg, Va., where he died.

TUCKER, Tilghman M., lawyer, b. in North Carolina; d. in Alabama, 30 April, 1859. He re- ceived a good education, studied law, and practised in Columbus, Miss. He was for many years a mem- ber of the legislature in one branch or the other, was governor of Mississippi in 1841-'3, and served a term in congress, which ended on 4 March, 1845.

TUCKER, William Jewett, clergyman, b. in Griswold, Conn., 13 July, 1839. He was graduated at Dartmouth in 1861, and in 1863, after teaching for two years, entered Andover theological semi- nary, where he was graduated in 1866. After a ministry of eight years in Manchester, N. H., where he became noted for the grace and eloquence of his sermons, he removed to New York city in 1875, and was pastor of the Madison square Presbyterian church until he entered on the professorship of sacred rhetoric at Andover seminary in 1879. He received the degree of D. D. from Dartmouth in 1875.

TUCKERMAN, Joseph, clergyman, b. in Boston, Mass., 18 Jan., 1778; d. in Havana, Cuba, 20 April, 1840. His father, Edward Tuckerman, a citizen of Boston, was one of the founders of the first fire insurance company in New England. The son was graduated at Harvard in 1798, where he was the classmate of William Ellery Channing, and room-mate of Joseph Story. He entered the Unitarian ministry in 1801, and first settled in Chelsea.