Richard Blackburn Tucker

Background

Tucker, Richard Blackburn was born on June 3, 1886 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Son of Bishop Beverley D. and Anna Maria (Washington) Tucker.

Education

Educated Norfolk (Virginia) Academy. Student of University Virginia, m. Elinor Hilliard, October 12, 1909 (deceased January 21, 1948).

Career

Manager of the John Doctorate. Gordan Company, Camaguey, Cuba, 1907-1908. Vice-president and general manager Building Supplies Corporation, Norfolk, Virginia, 1908. Manager Plate Glass Sales, Standard Plate Glass Company, Pittsburgh, 1925.

President Standard Plate Glass Company, 1926.

Manager glass sales, 1929. Director glass sales, 1940.

Director, since 1942. Vice president, 1944.

Executive vice president, 1947-1954.

Vice-president, director, member Executive Committee Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, 1956. Retired 1956; director Johann Wolfgang Fecker & Company, Pittsburgh Trustee, member Executive Committee Jamestown Glasshouse Foundation, Incorporated., Jamestown, Virginia. Governor, member board governor, Jamestowne Society Descendants Signers Declaration Independence (Second vice president general, director) Society of the Lees of Virginia (director), Baronial Order of Magna Charta (director), Society Descendants Knights of the Garter, Officer del ’Ordre Leopold II, Society of the Cincinnati (director), Alpha Tau Omega.

Achievements

• Richard Blackburn Tucker has been listed as a noteworthy industrialist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Clubs: Manhattan (New York), Colonnade (University, Virginia), Princess Anne Country (Virginia Beach, Virginia).

Connections

Married second Mary Williamson Foster (Jackson), May 24, 1949. Children-Elinor Hilliard (Mistress Cornelius Doctorate. Scully, Junior.

Father:

Bishop Beverley D. Tucker

Mother:

Anna Maria (Washington) Tucker

Spouse:

2d Mary Williamson Foster

child:

Elinor Hilliard (Mistress Cornelius D. Scully Tucker

child:

Junior Tucker