John Randolph Tucker was the son of Henry St. George Tucker and Anne Evelina Hunter. He attended Richmond Academy and graduated from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1844. He was admitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced the practice of law in Winchester, Virginia. He was Attorney General of Virginia from 1857 to 1865 and Professor of Equity and Public Law at Washington University in Lexington, Virginia.
In 1870 he was elected as a Democrat Representative from Winchester to the Forty-Fourth and to the five succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1887). He was the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means (Forty-Sixth Congress), Committee on the Judiciary (Forty-Eighth and Forty-Ninth Congresses).
He declined to be a candidate for re-nomination in 1886. In 1888 he became a Professor of Constitutional Law at Washington and Lee University and served until his death. He was the President of the American Bar Association in 1894.
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