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Tucker, Henry St George

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Tucker, Henry St George (1780–1848)

US jurist. A member of the Virginia house and senate and the US House of Representatives (Democrat-Republican, 1815–19), and a superior court judge (1824–31), he was elected president of the Virginia Supreme Court in 1831. In 1841 he became professor of law at the University of Virginia, initiating its ‘Honour System’. A soldier in the War of 1812 and the author of light verse, he wrote important legal commentaries. Tucker was born in Chesterfield County, Virginia and was the son of St George Tucker.



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