Thomas Tudor Tucker
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| 3rd Treasurer of the United States | |
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In office December 1, 1801 – May 2, 1828 |
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| President |
Thomas Jefferson James Madison James Monroe John Quincy Adams |
| Preceded by | Samuel Meredith |
| Succeeded by | William Clark |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South Carolina's 5th district |
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In office March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1793 |
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| Preceded by | Position established |
| Succeeded by | Alexander Gillon |
| Delegate from South Carolina to the Congress of the Confederation | |
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In office November 5, 1787 – October 21, 1788 |
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| Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from St. George's, Dorchester Parish | |
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In office February 28, 1787 – January 5, 1789 |
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In office January 4, 1785 – January 1, 1787 |
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In office January 8, 1782 – January 6, 1783 |
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| Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from St. John's, Colleton Parish | |
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In office March 26, 1776 – October 20, 1776 |
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June 25, 1745 St. George, Bermuda |
| Died | May 2, 1828 (aged 82) Washington, D.C. |
| Resting place | Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C. |
| Political party | Anti-Administration |
| Alma mater | University of Edinburgh |
| Profession | doctor |
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| Allegiance | United States of America |
| Service/branch | Continental Army |
| Years of service | 1781–1783 |
| Rank | surgeon |
| Battles/wars | American Revolutionary War |
Thomas Tudor Tucker (June 25, 1745 – May 2, 1828) was a Bermuda-born American physician and politician representing Charleston, South Carolina. He was elected from South Carolina in both the Continental Congress and the U.S. House. He later was appointed as Treasurer of the United States and served from 1801 to his death in 1828, establishing a record as the longest-serving Treasurer.
Thomas was born in St. George's, Bermuda to a family prominent in that colony since his ancestors immigrated from England in 1662. His parents were Henry (1713–1785) and Ann Tucker. As a youth, Thomas studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. After graduating in 1770, he moved first to Virginia in the 1760s, then settled in Charleston, South Carolina (which had been settled from Barbados in 1670, under the leadership of William Sayle, and which had a large community of expatriate Barbadians) and opened a practice. His younger brother St. George Tucker followed him to Virginia, studying law and eventually being appointed as Chief Justice of the Virginia Supreme Court.
Tucker was an early supporter of the cause of American independence. He was elected to the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1776, and served there in various years until 1788. In 1781 he joined the Continental Army as a hospital surgeon supporting the Southern Department, and served until 1783. South Carolina sent him as a delegate to the Continental Congress in 1787 and again in 1788. He is believed to have played a key role in a plot to supply the rebel army with gunpowder stolen from a British magazine in his Bermudian homeland.
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