St. George Tucker

Born in 1828, he was the son of Judge Henry St. George Tucker and Anne Evelina Hunter Tucker. He studied at Washington College, the University of Virginia, and the College of William and Mary, then practiced law and served as a clerk for both the Virginia Senate and the House of Delegates in the 1850s.

He is remembered as part of the Tucker family’s long literary and political tradition in Virginia. Sources describe him not only as a lawyer and public servant, but also as a writer and teacher, and surviving references to his work connect him with Southern poetry and letters in the years before and during the Civil War.

During the war, he served the Confederacy as an officer. He died young in the early 1860s, so his reputation rests on a brief but vivid life that combined law, public duty, and writing.