Vol. 32, No. 14
July 18, 2016
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. ...
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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