History - Past and Perspective
The Services of St. George Tucker
He served as a Revolutionary War soldier, he obtained supplies for Washington’s army, and he was the first person to thoroughly comment on the U.S. Constitution after it was ratified. ...
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Washington, Adams, Madison, Jefferson, Franklin. All of these Founding Fathers are well known and need no first names.
Tucker, however, is a surname of a member of the founding generation that isn’t familiar at all and definitely needs a first name, and what a first name it is: St. George!
St. George Tucker is a man whose name has been erased from the collective memory of Americans, and it is a shame. There was a time when his reputation as an able jurist and a staunch defender of states’ rights and republican principles was second to none, save only his fellow Virginian, Thomas Jefferson.
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