Background
Tucker, Spencer Coakley was born on September 20, 1937 in Buffalo. Son of Cary Spencer and Elizabeth (Becker) Tucker.
Tucker, Spencer Coakley was born on September 20, 1937 in Buffalo. Son of Cary Spencer and Elizabeth (Becker) Tucker.
Bachelor, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, 1959. Master of Arts, University North Carolina, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy, University North Carolina, 1966.
He taught history at Texas Christian University for 30 years, and held the John Biggs Chair of Military History at the Virginia Military Institute for six years. He was awarded a Fulbright scholarship, which he used to study at the University of Bordeaux, France from 1959-1960. Tucker went on to earn a master"s degree (1962) and a doctorate degree (1966) in modern European history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Tucker taught history at Texas Christian University for thirty years, from 1967 through 1997.
From 1992 through his departure in 1997, he was Chairman of the department. Tucker then went on to hold the John Biggs Chair in Military History at the Virginia Military Institute from 1997 to 2003 before retiring from teaching.
As a full professor, Tucker was a colonel in the Virginia Militia Unorganized. Tucker is now the Senior Fellow in Military History for American Broadcasting Company-CLIO. He is also editor of a series of monographs on decisive battles of the twentieth-century for Indiana University Press, with 21 books in the series published through 2014.
(Columbia, South Carolina published Military History)
(The confrontation between the U.S. frigate Chesapeake and...)
(Will be shipped from US. Brand new copy.)
Tucker was an active member of the Society for Military History and the North American Society for Oceanic History for years.
Married Beverly Blount.