John Randolph Tucker Collection, 1881-1899

Access and use

Location of collection:
Washington and Lee University, Law School
Washington and Lee University
School of Law
1004 Sydney Lewis Hall
1 Denny Circle
Lexington, VA 24450-0303
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Jennifer V. Mitchell
Phone: (540) 458-8969
Restrictions:

Collection is open to research.

Terms of access:

There are no restrictions.

Preferred citation:

John Randolph Tucker Collection, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia John Randolph Tucker Collection, Manuscript # 022, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, School of Law, Washington and Lee University

Summary

Extent:
.50 cubic foot
Creator:
John Randolph Tucker
Abstract:
Collection of 73 letters mostly written by John Randolph Tucker. Also includes items from other family members including Henry St. George Tucker. An address book, 4 printed speechs and a printed memorial program are also present.
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

John Randolph Tucker Collection, Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia John Randolph Tucker Collection, Manuscript # 022, Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, School of Law, Washington and Lee University

Background

Scope and content:

Seventy-three letters to John Randolph Tucker or Henry St. George Tucker, 1892-1899. Nine leaves of licenses, receipts and newspaper clippings, 1881-1896. Two essays by Harry Bertram Lewis, n.d. Book with Tucker's handwritten lists of political supporters 10th Congressional District by county, c. 1880. Four printed speeches by Tucker, 1879-1882. John Randolph Tucker memorial issue of The Southern Collegian, February 1897.

Biographical / historical:

John Randolph Tucker, (son of Henry St. George Tucker [1780-1848] and father of Henry St. George Tucker [1853-1932]), a Representative from Virginia; born in Winchester, Frederick County, Va., on December 24, 1823; attended a private school and Richmond Academy, and was graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1844; was admitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Winchester, Va.; attorney general of Virginia 1857-1865; professor of equity and public law at Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va., in 1870; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1887); chairman, Committee on Ways and Means (Forty-sixth Congress), Committee on the Judiciary (Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1886; elected professor of constitutional law at Washington and Lee University in 1888, and first Dean of the law school in 1893; president of the American Bar Association in 1894; died in Lexington, Va., February 13, 1897; interment in Mount Hebron Cemetery, Winchester, Va. (From Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774-Present

Acquisition information:
Gift of Carter Tucker, Stanley Petter, and John Randolph Tucker.
Physical location:
Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives stacks
Physical description:
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