Tucker, St. George

Born July 10, 1752, in Port Royal, Bermuda
Died October 10, 1827, near Warminster, VA

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Virginia
Nominated by James Madison on January 18, 1813, to a seat vacated by John Tyler. Confirmed by the Senate on January 19, 1813, and received commission on January 19, 1813. Service terminated on February 4, 1819, due to reassignment.

Judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
Reassigned on February 4, 1819, to a new seat authorized by 3 Stat. 478. Service terminated on June 30, 1825, due to resignation.

Education:
College of William and Mary, 1772

Professional Career:

Private practice, Williamsburg, Virginia, 1772-1776, 1811-1813
Continental Army lieutenant colonel, 1776-1781
Member, Virginia Council of State
Private practice, Virginia, 1781-1788
Commonwealth attorney, Chesterfield County, Virginia, 1783-1786
Delegate, Annapolis Convention, 1786
Judge, General Court of Virginia, 1788-1803
Professor of law, College of William and Mary, 1800-1804
Judge, Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, 1803-1811

Bibliography

Billings, Warren M. and Brent Tarter, eds. "Esteemed Bookes of Lawe" and the Legal Culture of Early Virginia. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2017.

Cullen, Charles Thomas. "Completing the Revisal of the Laws in Post-Revolutionary Virginia." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 82 (January 1974): 84-99.

Cullen, Charles Thomas. St. George Tucker and Law in Virginia, 1772- 1804. New York: Garland, 1987.

Hamilton, Phillip. "Education in the St. George Tucker Household: Change and Continuity in Jeffersonian Virginia." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 102 (April 1994): 167-92.

Hamilton, Phillip. "Revolutionary Principles and Family Loyalties: Slavery's Transformation in the St. George Tucker Household of Early National Virginia." William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd ser., 55 (October 1998): 531-56.

Hamilton, Phillip. "The Tucker Family and the Dynamics of Generational Change in Jeffersonian Virginia, 1775-1830." Ph.D. diss., Washington University, 1995.

Prince, William S. "St. George Tucker as a Poet of the Early Republic." Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1954.

Prince, William S. "St. George Tucker: Bard on the Bench." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 84 (1976): 267-82.

Riley, Charles Leigh. "The Public Life of St. George Tucker." Ph.D. diss., Duke University, 1939.

Scott, Robert Morton. "St. George Tucker and the Development of American Culture in Early Federal Virginia, 1790-1824." Ph.D. diss., George Washington University, 1991.

Manuscript Collections

Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Williamsburg, Va.
St. George Tucker collection, 1771-1821.
1 vol. and 41 pieces; miscellaneous correspondence and legal papers.

Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
St. George Tucker papers, 1776-1818.
39 items; letters to Tucker from his stepson, John Randolph, relating to personal and family matters; collection is a part of the Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection.

Library of Virginia
Richmond, Va.
Tucker-Ewell papers, 1770-1893.
183 leaves; papers consist of correspondence and receipts.

Tucker family papers, 1708-1892.
91 items; collection contains St. George Tucker's correspondence and papers.

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Va.
St. George Tucker papers, 1780-1823.
3 items; correspondence.

College of William and Mary
Williamsburg, Va.
[St. George Tucker] Tucker-Coleman papers, 1680-1959.
ca. 30,000 items; finding aid; correspondence, case notes, diaries, and miscellaneous papers.

St. George Tucker to Joseph C. Cabell letters, 1807-1820.
0.1 cubic ft. (7 letters); correspondence.

St. George Tucker law lectures, circa 1790s [digitized].
Ten notebooks of law lectures by St. George Tucker dated circa 1790s.

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