John Randolph Tucker (1823-1897) was born in Winchester, Virginia, the son of Henry St. George Tucker, and grandson of St. George Tucker. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1844 and married Laura Powell in 1848. He was Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1857 to 1865. Elected to the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat in 1875, he served until 1887. Tucker was chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means in the 46th Congress and chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary in the 48th and 49th Congresses. He introduced legislation broadening the power of the federal Court of Claims to hear Constitutional claims in 1886. He declined to be renominated to the House in 1886. Tucker made an unsuccessful but legally influential argument on behalf of August Spies and the other Haymarket Riot defendants during their appeal to the Supreme Court. Tucker served as president of The Virginia Bar Association in 1891-1892, and president of the American Bar Association in 1894. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Bible or Atheism (Dodo Press) (J. Randolph Tucker)