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and other leading measures, were powerful and convincing. After his congressional service he returned to his chair at Washing- ton and Lee, where he continued till his death at Lexington, Virginia, February 12, 1897. He delivered many addresses, and in 1887 spoke before the law school at Yale L'niversity, which in that year gave him the degree of Doctor of Laws. At the time of his death he was engaged in writing a work on the constitution, which was subsequently published by his son, Harry St. George Tucker (q. v.). Mr. Tucker married Laura Holmes Powell, a descendant of Col. Leven Powell (q. v.).

Trigg, Connally F., born at Abingdon, \irginia, September 18, 1847; studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Abingdon, Virginia ; elected commonwealth attorney for Washington county in 1872, which position he held until he resigned in 1884; elected as a Democrat to the forty- ninth congress (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1887) ; died at Abingdon, Virginia, .April 23, 1907. He was descended from ,\bram Trigg (q. v., Vol. II., p. 130).

Tucker, Harry St. George, born at Win- chester, Virginia, April 5, 1853, son of Hon. John Randolph Tucker and Laura Holmes Powell, his wife. His father was prominent in state and Federal service, and as an author ; his grandfather, Henry St. George Tucker, was president of the su- preme court, and his great-grandfather, St. George Tucker, was a state and Federal judge, member of the Annapolis convention and professor of law at William and Mary College. Harry St. George Tucker received his preparatory training at Middleburg, Vir- ginia, under Virginius Dabney, and in 1871

entered Washington and Lee University, from which he received the degree of Mas- ter of Arts in 1875 and Bachelor of Law in 1876. He was admitted to the bar in 1877, and practiced in Staunton, Virginia. In 1897 he removed to Lexington, Virginia. In 1889 he was elected as a Democrat to the fifty-first congress and was reelected to the fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth con- gresses (March 4, 1889-March 3, 1897) ; was the author of the bill which became a law in the fifty-third congress repealing the Fed- eral election laws, and author of the con- stitutional amendment to elect the senators of the L'nited States by the people, which passed the house; in May, 1897, he was elected to and accepted the chair of consti- tutional and international law and equity in Washington and Lee University, made vacant by the death of his father, and was from June. 1899, until July, 1902, dean of the law school. On the death of William L. Wilson, he was acting president of the uni- versity, and subsequently was professor of law in George Washington University. In 1907 he was president of the Jamestown Tercentennial Exposition, succeeding Gen. Fitzhugh Lee. In 1909 he was a candidate for governor in opposition to William H. JMann, and received a very large vote, but was defeated. In 1899 he edited the work of his father, "Tucker on the Constitution," and he has recently published a treatise on the treaty-making power, which has re- ceived much commendation.

Turnbull, Robert, b<irn at Lawrenceville, Brunswick county, \'irguiia, January 11, 1850; attended the common schools and was graduated from the L'niversity of \'irginia in 1871 ; studied law, was admitted to the