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The following June, having under his convoy from the West Indies, a fleet of merchantmen with armj supplies from Holland, he forced the surrender of the British frigate Pole, and in August, 1T79, captured the sloop-of-war Tliorn, Captain Wardhiw. He was paroled on Ma}' 20, 1780. after the capture of the American squadron under Commodore Whipple at Charleston, S.C.; subsequently cruised in the Tliorn, of which he became commander by exchange with Captain Wardlaw. and after taking several more valuable prizes, was himself captured near the mouth of the St. Lawrence river by the British frigate Hind, July, 1781, and held at Prince Edward island, whence he escaped to Boston, and after sending a written apology to the British officer in command was at his own request placed on parole. He was tiianked especially by congress for his many services during the war, and for several years fol- lowing he convoyed packets between the United States and Europe. He purchased a farm near Bristol (Bremen), Maine, in 1792, and after his brilliant capture in 1813. of the British privateer Crown, at tiiattime harassing the coast of Maine, he retired from marine service. He was elected selectman of Bristol; was a member of the Mas- sachusetts general court, 1814-18, and of the con- vention that framed the new state constitution of Maine, October, 1819, and was a presidential elector, 1820. His services in the navy were not duly recompensed, and his subsequent claim for arrears was ruled out by a statute of limitation, so that the last years of his life were passed in comparative poverty. He was awarded a pension of $240 a year, dating from 1818, which was raised to $600 the year previous to his death. His biography was written by John H. Sheppard (I8GS). Captain Tucker died in Bremen, Maine, March 10. 1833.

TUCKER, Thomas Tudor, delegate, was born in Port Royal, Bermuda, June 25, 1745; son of Henry and Anne (Butterfield) Tucker; and a brother of St. George Tucker (q.v.). He re- ceived a liberal education; studied medicine in the University of Edinburgh, and subsequently removed to South Carolina. He was married, July 3, 1774, to Esther, daughter of George Evans, of Charleston, S.C. He served as a surgeon dur- ing the Revolution; was a delegate to the Con- tinental congress in 1787-88: a Federalist repre- sentative from South Carolina in the 1st and 2d congresses, 1789-93, and served as U.S. treasurer from Dec. 1, 1801, until his death. He delivered an oration before the South Carolina society of the Cincinnati at Charleston, which was published (1795). He died in "VV.Tshington, D.C., May 2, 1828. leaving no descendants.

TUCKER, Tllghman M., governor of IMissis- sippi, was born in North Carolina. He was

liberally educated; removed to Hamilton. Miss., where he studied law under Daniel W. Wright; and practised in Columbus, Miss. He was a member of both houses of the state legislature for many years; governor of Mississippi. 1841-43, and a Democratic representative from the state- at-large in the 28th congress, 1843-45. He died in Alabama, April 30, 1859.

TUCKER, WiUiam Jewett, educator, was born ill Griswold, Conn., July 13, 1839; son of Henry and Sarah White (Lester) Tucker; grand- son of William and Sarah (Morgan) Tucker, and a descendant of Robert Tucker (1604-81-2), who came from England to Weymouth!Mass., 1635. He removed with his parents to New Hampshire; attended tiie Plymouth and Meriden Kimball Union academies, was graduated from Dartmouth college, A.B., 1861, and from Andover Theolog- ical seminary, 1866, having meanwhile taught school in Columbus, Ohio, 1861-63. He preached at Fort Scott, Kansas, 1866; was pastor of the Franklin Street Congregational cliurcli, Man- chester, N.H., from Jan. 24, 1867, to 1875. and of the Madison Square Presbyterian church, New York city, 1875-79. He was Bartlett professor of sacred rhetoric in Andover Theological seminary, 1879-93, and after declining the presidency of Dartmouth college in 1892, was prevailed upon to accept the appointment in 1893. He was first married, June 22, 1870, to Ciiarlotte Henry, daughter of John and Nancy (Russell) Rogers of Plymouth, N.H., and secondly. June 23, 1887, to Charlotte Barrell, daughter of Henry T. and Jane (Tyler) Cheever of Worcester, Mass. He re- ceived the honorary degree of D.D. from Dart- mouth in 1875, and was made a trustee of the col- lege in 1878; the degree of LL.D. from Williams, 1894, and from Yale, 1896. Dr. Tucker founded the Andover Review in 1885, and was one of its editors until 1893, and also founded the Andover House social settlement in Boston, Mass. He was Phi Beta Kappa orator of Harvard university, 1883 and 1892; lecturer before the Lowell Insti- tute, Boston, 1894; lecturer on the Winkley foundation, Andover Theological seminary. 1897, and on the Lyman Beecher foundation, Yale, 1889. Dr. Tucker is the author of: The Making and the Unmaking of the Preacher, Yale lectures (1898).

TUCKER, Willis Qaylord, chemist, was born in Albany, N.Y., Oct. 31, 1849; son of Luther (q.v.) and Margaret Lucinda (Smith) Tucker. He attended Albany academy and was graduated from Albany Medical college, M.D., 1870. He was assistant instructor in chemistry at the medical college, 1871-76; adjunct professor of materia medica and chemistry, 1870-77: professor of inorganic and analytical chemistry and toxi- cology from 1877, and in 1903 was professor of chemistry and toxicology. He was professor of