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Tucker was born on September 6, 1784 in Winchester, Virginia, the son of Congressman Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. and Ann Evelina Hunter, brother of John Randolph Tucker, Congressman, and uncle of Henry St. George Tucker, III, Congressman. He was the namesake of his uncle, author and judge Nathaniel Beverley Tucker.
The boy was prepared for college at the Richmond Academy and in 1837 went to the University of Virginia.
For a year he worked under Charles Ellet on the building of the James River & Kanawha Canal and then undertook the management of one of the family plantations.
He occupied himself with various undertakings, lost his capital and acquired debts in a business in Richmond, manufactured munitions for a time during the Mexican War, built up a practice in representing claims before Congress and before the federal departments, and was active in politics.
From 1853 to 1856 he edited the Washington Sentinel. In 1857 he succeeded Nathaniel Hawthorne as consul at Liverpool.
He enjoyed his personal and family connections in Europe, the friends and family of his late cousin, Henry St. George Tucker, who had been director and treasurer of the East India Company, as well as such Americans as George M. Dallas and John Y. Mason, the ministers to Great Britain and France and both friends and relatives by marriage.
Upon the secession of Virginia he returned home and joined the Confederate army. Soon he entered into a contract to provide supplies for the army, and in 1862 he was in New Orleans seeking passage abroad. He reached Paris and for a time entertained high hopes, but, thwarted on every hand, he returned home unsuccessful.
In 1864 he was sent to Canada on a delicate mission to arrange for an exchange of cotton for bacon and, apparently, to make some kind of secret diplomatic representations to Northern men of influence. He was successful in making a contract for the exchange of the two commodities, pound for pound, but in the confusion at the end of the war the terms were never carried out.
After the war he was harassed by the unfounded suspicions and animosities of the period. Accused of complicity in the plot to murder Lincoln, a reward of $25, 000 was offered for him until November 1865, when the offer was revoked. In spite of the entire lack of evidence against him and in spite of his own knowledge of the partisan reasons for such persecution, this charge continued to be a source of distress to him. He spent a series of unprofitable years in England, Mexico, and Canada and in 1872 returned to the United States.
He lived the remaining years of his life at Washington and, in the summer, at Berkeley Springs, W. Va. , advocating the claims of various interests to Congress, to the federal departments, and to the public, writing for newspapers, and valiantly struggling with the difficulties of poverty and illness.
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He was more than six feet tall and fine-featured, he possessed a manner and personality that made him many friends. In 1861 in a notice seeking his recognition and arrest, Seward described him as "a large man, upwards of fifty, florid complexion" with "plausible and boisterous manners".
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At his death the Washington Post (post) said of him that "he was perhaps as well known personally to leading politicians throughout the country as any man of his time. "
In 1840 or 1841, he married Jane Shelton Ellis (born about 1820 in Richmond, Virginia), the daughter of Charles Ellis and Jane Shelton. Among his eight children was Beverley Dandridge Tucker, Episcopal Bishop of Southern Virginia (who in turn by Anna Maria Washington was the father of Henry St. George Tucker, Episcopal Bishop of Kyoto, Japan, and later Virginia and, even later, Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, USA).
(December 29, 1780 – August 28, 1848) He was a Virginia jurist, law professor, and U.S. Congressman (1815–1819).
(born about 1820 in Richmond, Virginia)
(December 24, 1823 – February 13, 1897) He was an American lawyer, author, and politician from Virginia.
(1846-1930) He was born in Richmond, Virginia.
(January 31, 1830 – January 27, 1893) He was an American statesman and Republican politician who represented Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1863 to 1876, serving as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1869 to 1875, and then in the United States Senate from 1876 to 1881.
(August 3, 1808 – September 7, 1893) He was an American politician who served as the 16th Governor of New York from 1849 to 1850, a United States Senator from New York from 1851 to 1857 and the 26th United States Secretary of State from 1869 too 1877.
