century association biographical archive

Earliest Members of the Century Association

View all members

Henry St. G. Tucker

Lawyer/U.S. Congressman

Centurion, 1919–1932

Full Name Henry St. George Tucker

Born 5 April 1853 in Winchester, Virginia

Died 23 July 1932 in Lexington, Virginia

Buried Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery, Lexington, Virginia

Proposed by Samuel H. Ordway and Albert Shaw

Elected 6 December 1919 at age sixty-six

Century Memorial

Henry St. George Tucker represented Virginia in the House at Washington with such efficiency that, after the state had been redistricted a year ago and fragments of his own old Congressional district had been combined with territory cut off from others, he was unopposed at the primaries for the newly-created constituency. That this was a tribute to Tucker’s personality was proved by the entry into the field, when his death had reopened controversy, of no less than eight separate candidates representing almost as many mutually hostile factions in the district.

Alexander Dana Noyes
1933 Century Association Yearbook