PUBLIC "-//Washington and Lee University::School of Law::Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives//TEXT (US::ViLxW-L-H::ViLxW-L00022::A Guide to the John Randolph Tucker Collection, 1881-1899)//EN" "ViLxW-L00022.xml" A Guide to the John Randolph Tucker Collection, 1881-1899 Tucker, John Randolph 022 John N. Jacob Washington and Lee University, School of Law, Lewis F. Powerll, Jr. Archives © 2016 By Washington and Lee University. All rights reserved. Machine-readable finding aid derived from being created directly into EAD, created by John N. Jacob, 26October 2016 Description is in English A Guide to the John Randolph Tucker Collection, 1881-1899 A Collection in Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives 022

Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Washington and Lee University 2016 John N. Jacob Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, School of Law, Washington and Lee University Descriptive Summary Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, School of Law, Washington and Lee University John Randolph Tucker Collection, 1881-1899 022 Lewis F. Powell Jr. Archives stacks .50 cubic foot. English 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. John Randolph Tucker Administrative Information Access Restrictions

Collection is open to research.

Use Restrictions

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

Acquisition Information

Gift of Carter Tucker, Stanley Petter, and John Randolph Tucker.

Biographical Information

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

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.