Nathaniel Beverley Tucker

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Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (September 6, 1784 - August 26, 1851) was an American author, law professor, and state and federal judge.

Tucker was born in Virginia.

He served as a federal circuit court judge in the Missouri Territory. He returned to Virginia where he served as a state judge for a number of years before resigning to become a Professor of Law at William and Mary College.

His novel The Partisan Leader was published in (1836), a prophecy of the future disunion which led to the American Civil War. It was republished in 1861 as A Key to the Southern Conspiracy. Another of his novels was George Balcombe.

He died in Winchester, Virginia at the age of 66 years.

[edit] Sources

• "Recent Deaths"; New York Daily Times; September 18, 1851; page 2. (Accessed from The New York Times (1851–2003), ProQuest Historical Newspapers, September 19, 2006).

[edit] External links

• Colonial Williamsburg - The Life and Literature of Nathaniel Beverley Tucker

This article incorporates public domain text from: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature. London, J.M. Dent & sons; New York, E.P. Dutton.