Henry St. George Tucker Sr.
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Henry St. George Tucker Sr. was an American judge, professor and politician.
Posthumous portrait, c. 1938
Winchester Law School
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Winchester Law School was a privately run institution for legal education in Winchester, Virginia. Operated by Chancellor Henry St. George Tucker Sr., it operated from 1824 to 1831. Tucker closed it a
Henry St. George Tucker Sr.
…Second Bank of the United States and the passage of the Tariff of 1816. In 1823 he had a son, John Randolph Tucker. From 1824 to 1831 he operated the Winchester Law School. He went on to be judge and president of the Court of Appeals of Virginia (1831–1841) and then became a professor of law at the University of Virginia…
Title page of Volume 1 of Henry St. George Tucker's "Commentaries on the Laws of Virginia". This work includes lectures he delivered while operating the Winchester Law School.