Tucker, St George (1752–1827)

American jurist. He sat on the Virginia Supreme Court (1803–11) and was federal judge for Virginia (1813–27). His important works include his Dissertation on Slavery: with a Proposal for its Gradual Abolition in Virginia (1796) and an annotated Blackstone's Commentaries (1803). Tucker was born in Port Royal, Bermuda. He emigrated to Virginia in his late teens. A lieutenant-colonel at Yorktown, he became judge of the general court in Virginia (1788) and professor at William and Mary (1800).