Background
Tucker, Starling was born in 1770 in Halifax County, North Carolina, United States.
Tucker, Starling was born in 1770 in Halifax County, North Carolina, United States.
Born in Halifax County, North Carolina, Tucker moved to Mountain Shoals (now Enoree), South Carolina. He received a limited education. Tucker was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress.
He was reelected to the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Congresses and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1831).
He died in Mountain Shoals (now Enoree), South Carolina, January 3, 1834. He was interred in the private burial ground on the family estate west of Enoree, South Carolina.
Jacksonian Democracy, Democratic Party.
Tucker held several local offices and served as member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.