Education
Smith graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor"s degree and masters degree in political science.
Smith graduated from the University of Missouri with a bachelor"s degree and masters degree in political science.
From 1933 to 1937, he was director of Brookwood Labor College. Tucker finished third of four candidates with 6,144 votes for 3.8% of the total vote.
In 1948, Smith was selected as the Socialist vice presidential candidate to run along with Norman Thomas. The 1948 Socialist ticket garnered 139,569 votes. In 1930 Tucker was the Socialist candidate for United States. Representative from New York 2nd District.
He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Delta Sigma Rho, and Alpha Zeta Pi. He was a long-time pacifist, and member of the Committee on Militarism in Education and the Fellowship of Reconciliation (both major pacifist organizations during and after World War I).