William M. Tuck | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia's 5th district |
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In office April 14, 1953 – January 3, 1969 |
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Preceded by | Thomas B. Stanley |
Succeeded by | Dan Daniel |
55th Governor of Virginia | |
In office 1946–1950 |
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Lieutenant | Lewis Preston Collins II |
Preceded by | Colgate Darden |
Succeeded by | John S. Battle |
25th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia | |
In office 1942–1946 |
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Governor | Colgate Darden |
Preceded by | Saxon Winston Holt |
Succeeded by | Lewis Preston Collins II |
Member of the Virginia Senate |
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In office 1932–1942 |
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Member of the Virginia House of Delegates |
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In office 1924–1932 |
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Personal details | |
Born | South Boston, Virginia September 28, 1896 Halifax County, Virginia |
Died | June 9, 1983 South Boston, Virginia |
(aged 86)
Resting place | Oak Ridge Cemetery, South Boston, Virginia |
Nationality | United States |
Political party | Democratic |
Spouse(s) | Eva Ellis Lovelace Dillard Tuck
Children = Woody Marshall Tuck |
Alma mater | College of William and Mary Washington and Lee University |
Profession | Attorney |
Military service | |
Service/branch | United States Marine Corps |
Years of service | 1918–1919 |
Battles/wars | World War I |
William Munford Tuck (September 28, 1896 – June 9, 1983) served as the 55th Governor of Virginia from 1946 to 1950 as a Democrat.
He was the youngest son of Halifax County, Virginia tobacco warehouseman Robert James Tuck and Virginia Susan Fritts. Tuck graduated from the College of William and Mary, earning a teacher's certificate. He served in U.S. Marine Corps in 1917 in the Caribbean. He graduated from Washington and Lee University Law School in 1921 and was admitted to Virginia bar then was a Halifax, Virginia attorney who also served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly and as the 25th Lieutenant Governor of Virginia from 1942 to 1946. As governor, he reorganized state government, enacted a right-to-work law, and created a state water pollution control agency.
Tuck was elected as a Democrat to U.S. Congress seat in 1953 to assume vacancy created by Thomas Bahnson Stanley who had resigned to run for Governor of Virginia. There he opposed most major items of civil rights legislation during the 1950s and 1960s. He also promised "massive resistance" to the Supreme Court's 1954 decision banning segregation, Brown v. Board of Education, and helped draft the Stanley plan—a series of state laws designed to legally avoid Brown.
He is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, South Boston, Virginia.
He is preceded in death by his son Woody Marshall Tuck.
He was a delegate to Democratic National Conventions of 1948 and 1952.
His personal papers, including papers from his time as congressman and governor, are held by the Special Collections Research Center at the College of William & Mary.[1] His executive papers from his time as governor are held by the Library of Virginia.
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Preceded by Colgate Darden |
Governor of Virginia 1946–1950 |
Succeeded by John S. Battle |
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