Background
Tucker was born in Winchester, Virginia, the son of Congressman Henry Saint George Tucker, Senior and Ann Evelina Hunter, brother of John Randolph Tucker, Congressman, and uncle of Henry Saint George Tucker, III, Congressman.
Tucker was born in Winchester, Virginia, the son of Congressman Henry Saint George Tucker, Senior and Ann Evelina Hunter, brother of John Randolph Tucker, Congressman, and uncle of Henry Saint George Tucker, III, Congressman.
He was educated at the University of Virginia.
In December 1853 he was elected printer to the United States Senate, and in 1857 was appointed consul to Liverpool, England, remaining there until 1861. He joined the Confederate Army, and was sent by the Confederate government in 1862 as an economic agent to England and France, and in 1863-1864 to Canada, to arrange for the exchange of cotton for Union food. He also made some secret diplomatic representations to Northern men of influence.
He was included on the Union “Wanted List” during the War, and was charged as a conspirator in the plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.
Although he was never arrested, he was never pardoned either. He went to Mexico after the Civil War ended, was there until the reign of Maximilian I of Mexico came to an end, whereupon he returned to Canada.
Upon returning to the United States in 1869, he resided in Washington, District of Columbia, and Berkeley Springs, West Virginia. He died in Richmond, Virginia.
Married Jane Ellis, January 21, 1841, 8 children.