George Tucker (20 August 1775-10 April 1861) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-VA 15) from 4 March 1817 to 3 March 1823 (succeeding William J. Lewis and preceding John S. Barbour) and from VA-6 from 4 March 1823 to 3 March 1825 (succeeding Alexander Smyth and preceding Thomas Davenport).
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George Tucker was born in Bermuda in 1775, and he emigrated to Virginia at the age of 20 and became a lawyer in Williamsburg and Richmond, Virginia. He rose through the ranks of Richmond society through marriage, and he became a prolific writer on topics from slavery, suffrage, and morality to intracoastal navigation, wages, and banking. He served in the House of Delegates from 1815 to 1817 and in the US House of Representatives from 1817 to 1825, and Thomas Jefferson and James Madison made him a professor of moral philosophy at the University of Virginia despite his scandalous lifestyle. He retired to Philadelphia in 1845, and he wrote Jefferson's first comprehensive biography and a history of the United States in 1856. He died in Albemarle County in 1861.