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William & Mary Special Collections Research CenterFinding Aid Authors: Kim Sims.
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John Randolph Tucker Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Processed by Cynthia Reynolds, July 2015
Accession 1984.28
John Randolph Tucker was born December 24, 1823 in Winchester, Va. He was the son of Henry St. George Tucker and grandson of St. George Tucker. He graduated with a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1844. In addition to practicing law, he served as Attorney General of Virginia (1857-1865), as a member of the U. S. House of Representatives (1875-1887), and taught at Washington and Lee University beginning in 1888, serving as Dean of the Law School from 1893-1897. Tucker also served as president of the Virginia Bar Association (1891-1892) and the American Bar Association (1894). He died in 1897 in Lexington, Va.
This collection contains correspondence received by John Randolph Tucker from family members, particularly his son, Henry St. George Tucker, and grandson, John Randolph Tucker Carmichael, as well as law associates, fellow professors at Washington and Lee University, and friends. Also included are several of his published speeches, including addresses to the American Bar Association and notes on class lectures at Washington and Lee. There is also information about plans for a law school building to be built in memory of Tucker at the University.
Tucker-Coleman Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library
Cynthia Beverley Tucker Washington Coleman Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library
Beverley Randolph Tucker Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library
Congressional Record, 1876 May 14, Speech delivered to the House of Representatives, 1879 Apr. 4, Speech in the House of Representatives, 1882 Mar. 14, An Address Delivered Before the Graduating Class at the 63rd Anniversary of Yale Law School, 1887 Jun. 28
Life and Character of Col. William Allan, Late Principal of McDonogh School, 1889, An Address Delivered Before the Centennial Meeting of the Synod of Virginia, 1888 Oct. 24, Paper read at the Virginia State Bar Association's 3rd annual meeting, 1891 July 28-30
Annual Address before the American Bar Association, 1892 Aug. 25, American Bar Association Address, 1893 Aug. 30
Broadside: Reply of John Scott of Fauquier, 1895 Aug., Reminiscences of Virginia's Judges and Jurists, 1895 Feb. 7, The Constitution of the United States: The Best Product of Political Science for the Security of Freedom to Man, 1896 Jul. 16, What is the Best Training for the American Bar of the Future, 1896 Aug. 20
Memorials
Effect of the Jamestown Exposition on the Foreign Commerce of the United States and Incidental Remarks on the Subject, 1897 Jan. 15, History of the Adoption of the American Constitution, undated, Washington and Lee University Notes on Lectures on Natural Law, undated, Washington and Lee University Notes of Lectures on Political Science, undated