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[Identification of item], in the Tucker Family Papers, #2605, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• American Bar Association.
• Constitutional law--United States--History--19th century.
• Education--Virginia--History--20th century.
• Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
• George Washington University--History--20th century.
• Industries--Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)--History.
• Jamestown Ter-centennial Exposition (1907)
• Johnston, William Preston.
• Lawyers--Virginia--History.
• Legislators--United States--Correspondence.
• Louisiana State University System--Presidents.
• Political campaigns--Virginia--History.
• Politicians--Virginia--History.
• Powell family.
• San Francisco Exposition (1915)
• St. Louis Exposition (1904)
• Tucker family.
• Tucker, Henry St. George, 1853-1932.
• Tucker, John Randolph, 1823-1897.
• Tulane University--Presidents.
• United States--Politics and government--1865-1900.
• United States. Congress. House--History--19th century.
• Virginia--Politics and government--1775-1865.
• Virginia--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Washington and Lee University--History--20th century.

Tucker family of Virginia. Prominent family members include John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897), constitutional lawyer, legal scholar, United States representative, 1875-1887; and his son Henry St. George Tucker (1853- 1932), law professor, United States representative, 1889-1897 and 1922-1932, and gubernatorial aspirant.

The collection includes personal, professional, and political correspondence of John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) and his son, Henry St. George Tucker (1853-1932), and scattered papers of earlier members of the Tucker and Powell families in Virginia. Papers include lifelong correspondence between father and son; wide correspondence among Democratic Virginia politicians and constituents, American jurists, and statesmen, and a large family connection; and letters and papers, chiefly postbellum, of William Preston Johnston (1831-1899), president of Louisiana State University and Tulane University and Henry St. George Tucker's father-in-law.

Tucker correspondence, beginning 1843, concerns the law practice of father and son and other litigation in Virginia; factional, state, sectional, and national politics, issues, campaigns, and legislation; and legal and governmental theory and public speaking and writing mainly about constitutional interpretation. Papers also concern industrial development in the Shenandoah Valley; George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; expositions at St. Louis, Jamestown, Va., and San Francisco; the American Bar Association; public education in Virginia; and Washington and Lee University. There are no congressional papers of Henry St. George Tucker for the period, 1922-1932, and only a few letters relating to J. R. Tucker's work as attorney general of Virginia, 1857-1865.

Volumes include two account books, 1821-1845 and 1848-1862; a lettercopy book, 1859-1861 and 1864; and scrapbooks of notes and clippings. Also included are antebellum personal and political papers of the Powell family of Virginia and scattered papers relating to Henry St. George Tucker (1780-1848), jurist, and (Nathaniel) Beverley Tucker (1820-1890), Confederate agent.