Walter R. Tucker III
| Walter R. Tucker III | |
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 37th district |
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In office January 3, 1993 – December 15, 1995 |
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| Preceded by | Al McCandless |
| Succeeded by | Juanita Millender-McDonald |
| Mayor of Compton, California | |
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In office 1991–1993 |
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| Preceded by | Walter R. Tucker, Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Omar Bradley |
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May 28, 1957 Compton, California |
Walter Rayford Tucker III (born May 28, 1957) is an American politician and minister who served as mayor of Compton and a U.S. Representative from California.
Tucker was born in Compton, California, the son of Walter R. Tucker, Jr., a dentist who was mayor of Compton beginning in 1981. The younger Tucker finished Compton High School in 1974 as class valedictorian and attended Princeton University for the next two years. He graduated from the University of Southern California in 1978 with a degree in political science and earned his law degree from Georgetown University School of Law in 1981. He was admitted to the California State Bar in 1984.
Tucker was a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney from 1984 to 1986, when he began in private practice as a criminal defense attorney. After his father died while still in office as mayor of Compton, the younger Tucker won a special election to replace him, becoming the youngest mayor in the city's history at age 33. He served from 1991 to 1992, during the civil unrest in Los Angeles County spawned by the Rodney King verdict.
In 1992, Tucker was elected to the House of Representatives as a Democrat, defeating Lynn Dymally, the daughter of the retiring Representative Mervyn Dymally.
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