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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaTUCKER, Thomas Tudor
(1745—1828)
TUCKER, Thomas Tudor, (uncle of Henry St. George Tucker [1780-1848]), a Delegate and a Representative from South Carolina; born in Port Royal, Bermuda, June 25, 1745; attended the common schools; studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; moved to South Carolina and practiced medicine; served as a surgeon in the Revolutionary War; member of the State assembly, 1776, 1782-1783, 1785 and 1787-1788; Member of the Continental Congress in 1787 and 1788; elected to the First and Second Congresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1793); appointed United States Treasurer by President Jefferson and served from December 1, 1801, until his death in Washington, D.C., May 2, 1828; interment in Congressional Cemetery.
Dowdy, Diana Dru. “A school for stoicism”: The life and letters of Thomas Tudor Tucker.” Master’s thesis, College of William and Mary, 1984.
Tucker, Thomas Tudor. Conciliatory hints, attempting, by a fair state of matters, to remove party-prejudices;— [microform]: Offering a few reflections on the various forms of government;— pointing out the preference to be given to the true republican or democratic system;— and proposing a convention by delegates, for the purpose of accommodating our constitution more perfectly to the principles of equal and permanent freedom: Submitted to the consideration of the citizens of the Commonwealth of South-Carolina. / By Philodemus
. Charleston, S.C.: Printed for A. Timothy, no. 89, Broad-Street, MDCCLXXXIV, [1784].
———. An oration delivered in St. Michael’s Church, before the inhabitants of Charleston, South-Carolina, on the 4th of July, 1795; in commemoration of American independence, [microform] : by the appointment of the South-Carolina State Society of Cincinnati, published at the request of that society, and also of the American Revolution Society
. Charleston, S.C.: From the press of Timothy & Mason, [1795].
———. To the Honorable the president and Senate, and the Honorable the Speaker, and House of Representatives, of the state of South-Carolina— [microform]: The petition of Thomas Tuder [sic] Tucker, respectfully sheweth [sic]— that in the month of April, 1791, in conformity to a concurrent resolution of both house of the legislature, indents were issued
. [Charleston, S.C.: N.p., 1795].
Woodruff, Caldwell. Thomas Tudor Tucker, M.D.: Citizen of South Carolina, patriot and statesman, and treasurer of the United States
. N.p., n.d.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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