HON. HENRY ST. GEO. TUCKER,
Born in Winchester, Virginia, April 5th, 1853, is a son of Hon. John
Randolph Tucker, who was born in Winchester, on December 24, 1823,
and his wife, Laura Holmes Powell, of Middleburg, Loudoun county,
Virginia, who was a daughter of Col. Humphrey B. Powell, who was a
lawyer, and for a number of years a member of the Virginia legislature.
John Randolph Tucker was attorney general of Virginia from 1857 to
1865, Professor of law in Washington and Lee University, from 1870
to 1875, member of Congress from Virginia 1875 to 1887, and again
elected professor of law in Washington and Lee University in June,
1889. His father was Hon. Henry St. Geo. Tucker of Winchester, member
of Congress two terms; president of the Court of Appeals of Virginia
for twelve years, professor of law at the University of Virginia
four years, and died in August, 1848.
The subject of this sketch was educated at the Washington and Lee
University, and commenced the practice of law in Staunton in 1876.
On the 6th of November, 1888, he was elected to Congress from the
10th district of Virginia. At Lexington, Virginia, on the 25th of
October, 1877, he married Henrietta Preston Johnston, a granddaughter
of the lamented Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, C. S. A., and a daughter
of Col. Wm. Preston Johnston, who was on the staff of President
Jefferson Davis during the Confederate war, and was professor of History
and Literature at the Washington and Lee University for a number
of years after the war, and is now president of the Tulane University
at New Orleans, Louisiana. Her mother, whose maiden name was
Duncan, was the daughter of John Duncan, a distinguished lawyer of
New Orleans.
Mr. and Mrs. Tucker have two sons and one daughter: John Randolph—now
nine years old; Rosa Johnston, eight years old; Albert
Sidney Johnston, born November 12, 1885, and they have buried one
son, their second child, Preston Johnston, who died July 2, 1879.
Mr. Tucker is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Staunton;
his wife is a member of the Episcopal church.
