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rank, aiul as coiiunaiuler of the steamer Patrick Henry was engaged in tlieMerriinac-Monitor con- rtict, Marcli 9, l^GJ. anil other engagements at Hampton Koails. He succeedetl to the command of the wooden fleet. March 13, 18G'2. participating in the attack on Drewry's Bhitf; was promoted caiJtain, May 13, 1863, and commanded the Con- federate flag-sliip Chicora at Cliarleston, S. C, where he remained until the occupation of that city by General Slierman, Feb. 18, 1865, when he retnrneil to Drewry's Bluff and organized the naval brigade. On Aiiril 6, 1865, at the battle of Sailor's Creek, he commanded the naval battalion and was attached to Gen. G. W. C. Lee's division. General Ewell's corps. General Lee was posted on the left behind rising ground on ihe west bank of the stream, Kershaw's divi- sion occupying the right, and Commodore Tucker was stiitioned behind Lee's right. In the as- sault that followed, every avenue of escape was cut off; General Ewell was forced to surrender; Generals Lee and Kershaw were captured, and Oiuimotlore Tucker and his marine brigade, numbering about 2000, who, under cover of a dense forest, had been passed by in the first onset, were also obliged to surrender to General Keifer soon after. He was promoted rear- admiral in command of the Peruvian navy, 1866, and in that capacity had charge of the naval operations of Peru and Chili in their war with Spain. He was subsequently made president of the Peruvian hydrographic commission of the Amazon, and explored and surveyed the upper Amazon and its tributaries. He returned to Petersburg. Va., where he died, June 12, 1883.

TUCKER, John Randolph, representative, was born in Winchester, Va., Dec. 24, 1823; son of Henry St. George (q.v.) and Evelina (Hunter) Tucker. He attended a private school and Rich- mond academy; was graduated from the Univer- sity of Virginia, B.S., 1844; admitted to the bar, 1845, and commenced practice in Richmond, soon afterward returning to Winchester. He was mar- ried, Oct. 5, 1848, to Laura, daughter of Hum- phrey B. and Ann (Holmes) Powell of Loudoun county, Va. He was a presidential elector on the Democratic ticket in 1S52 and 1856; was elected attornej'-general of Virginia in May, 1857, and remained in office until 1865, after which he re- sumed the practice of law. He was professor of equity and public law in Washington college (Washington and Lee university), 1870-75, and lecturer on constitutional law, 1875-88, and was a Democratic representative from the tenth Vir- ginia district in the 44th-50th congresses, serving from 1875-87, when he re-signed and practised law in Washington. D.C.. until 18S9. While in congress, he was for one ypar chairman of the ways and means committee, and in the 48th and

49th congresses served as chairman of the judi- ciary committee. He resumed his professors! lij) of constitutional and international law in Wash- ingion and Lee university, and was subsequently appointed dean of the Law school, which posi- tions he held until his death, when he was suc- ceeded by his son, Henry St. George Tucker (q.v.). He received the honorary degree of LL.D. from William and Mary college, 1875; from Yale, 1877; Harvard, 1891, and Union, 1895. He was president of the American Bar association and is the author of several famous speeches, notably those on the Hawaiian treaty, 1876. the use of the army at the polls, 1879, and the Chinese immigration. 1883. His addresses include one be- fore the Social Science association, 1887, and one before the Yale Law school in the .same year. His congressional report on the "Treaty making power " was extensively quoted. He died in Lexington, Va., Feb. 13, 1897.

TUCKER, LUTHER, editor, was born in Bran- don, Vt., May 7, 1802; son of Stephen and Olive (Green) Tucker; grandson of Stephen and Lois (Lyon) Tucker and of Charles Green, and a de- scendant of Robert Tucker, born in England, who settled in Weymouth, Mass., about 1635. He be- gan to learn the printer's trade in Middlebury, Vt., in 1816, and in the following year removed with his employer to Palmyra, N.Y., being sub- sequently employed as a journeyman. In partner- sliip with Henry C. Sleiglit he engaged in the printing business at Jamaica, L.I., N.Y., 1825-26, and in October, 1826, founded the Daily Adver- tiser, Rochester, N.Y., of which he remained pro- prietor and publisher until 1839, having also founded The Genesee Farmer, Jan. 1, 1831. which in 1840 was merged into The Cultivator; a Con- solidation of BueVs Cultivator and the Genesee Farmer. He published the first number of The Country Gentleman, 1853, which was issued in combination with the Cultivator after 1866. He married, June 1, 1846, Margaret Lucinda, daugh- ter of John C. and Lucv (Cleveland) Smith of New York. He died in Albany, N.Y., Jan. 26, 1873.

TUCKER, Nathaniel Beverley, autlior, was born at ^Matoax, Chesterfield county, Va., Sept. 6, 1784; son of St. George (q.v.) and Frances (Bland) Randolph Tucker. He was graduated from William and Mary college, A.B., 1801; studied law; was admitted to the bar, and began practice in Charlotte county, Va., the home of his half-brother, John Randolph, of Roanoke. In 1815 he removed to Missouri, serving as judge of the circuit court until 1830, when he returned to Virginia, and was professor of law in William and Mary college, 1834-51. He was married, April 13, 1830. to Lucj' Anne, daughter of Gen. Thomas Adams Smith (U.S.A.) and Cynthia (White) Smith. His writings include: The Part-