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NATHANIEL BEVERLEY TUCKER 1784-1851
Grand Master, 1821
BIOGRAPHY
From Biographies of Past Grand Masters, 1821-1901, by the Grand Lodge of Missouri:
Most Worshipful Brother Nathaniel Beverley Tucker was one of the organizers and the second Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Missouri. He was elected and installed at the Annual Communication in October, 1821. He was at each succeeding Annual Session, in 1822, 1823 and 1824, elected to succeed himself, and therefore presided four years. He was succeeded by Brother Edward Bates.
Brother Tucker was born at Mattox, Chesterfield County, Virginia, September 6, 1784, and came to St. Louis in 1815, and settled down as a lawyer. He was appointed Judge of the "Northern Circuit," and held the first term of court February 5, 1818, in St. Louis. Judge Tucker held the position for several years.
It is written of him that he was eccentric in many ways, that he had his office and library in the stump of a hollow tree in Florissant Valley, St. Louis County. He was regarded as one of the best writers of his day. In the Partisan Leader, written by him in 1837, he as clearly mapped out the entire program of the Secession of 1861 and as accurate as if he had been in the confidence of the leaders who conducted that movement at Montgomery, Alabama, in the winter of 1861, twenty-four years after.
Judge Tucker in 1833 returned to his native State, settling at Winchester, Virginia. He was soon thereafter chosen law professor in William and Mary College at Williamsburg, Virginia, which he held eighteen years until his death, August 26, 1851, at the age of 67 years.
- Works
- The Partisan Leader Wikipedia entry; Google books entry
- George Balcombe Google books entry
- Gertrude, A Novel
- Discourse on the Importance of the Study of Political Science as a Branch of Academic Education in the United States
- Discourse on the Dangers that threaten the Free Institutions of the United States
- Lectures intended to Prepare the Student for the Study of the Constitution of the United States; Google books entry
- Principles of Pleading Google books entry
- Find A Grave page
