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Samuel Tucker (NYPL Hades-252328-478519) (cropped)
Samuel Tucker may refer to: *Samuel Tucker (golfer) (1875–??), English golfer *Samuel Tucker (naval officer) (1747–1833), American naval officer *Samuel Tucker (politician) (1721–1789), American politician *Samuel Wilbert Tucker (1913–1990), American attorney See also *Sam Tucker (1895–1973), English rugby union footballer {{hndis, Tucker, Samuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Tucker (golfer)
Samuel Tucker (born c. 1875) was an English professional golfer. Tucker placed ninth in the 1895 U.S. Open, held on Friday, 4 October, at Newport Golf Club in Newport, Rhode Island. Early life Tucker was born in England circa 1875. Golf career Tucker was the professional at Dyker Meadow Golf Club in Brooklyn, New York, in 1898, where Mungo Park had also been posted, but thereafter left for a job at Allegheny Country Club. 1895 U.S. Open Tucker finished in ninth place in the 1895 U.S. Open which was the inaugural U.S. Open. He posted rounds of 97-88=185 but failed to win any prize money. His brother Willie played in the tournament in 1896, finishing in eighth place. The winner was Horace Rawlins, two strokes ahead of runner-up Willie Dunn Willy or Willie is a masculine, male given name, often a diminutive form of William or Wilhelm, and occasionally a nickname. It may refer to: People Given name or nickname * Willie Aames (born 1960), American actor, television director, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Tucker (naval Officer)
Samuel Tucker (1 November 1747 – 10 March 1833) was an officer in the Continental Navy and the United States Navy. Military career Born in Marblehead, Massachusetts, Tucker began his naval career in the spring of 1760 as a cabin boy in the warship, ''King George''. He subsequently rose to command of a merchant ship in July 1774. Tucker was in England at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, but returned to Massachusetts in the autumn of 1775. Upon his return, Tucker was selected by General George Washington to command a small flotilla of armed schooners which Washington had purchased and fitted out to prey on the British shipping. Tucker also served as commanding officer of the schooner ''Franklin''. In ''Franklin'' and later in schooner ''Hancock'', Tucker cruised off the Massachusetts coast, taking many prizes in the year 1776. His first, taken jointly with the schooner ''Lee'', came on 29 February, when the two Continental ships cornered the 300-ton ''He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Tucker (politician)
Samuel Tucker (1721–1789) was an American colonial politician who served as a Freeholder in Hunterdon County, New Jersey during the colonial period, and later as President and Treasurer of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War.Schuyler, Hamilton"CHAPTER II: Trenton and Trentonians in the Revolutionary Era"in ''A History of Trenton, 1679-1929: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of a Notable Town with Links in Four Centuries''. (Trenton, New Jersey: Trenton Historical Society, 1929). During this period, the colony converted to an independent state in 1776 after the ouster of Royal Governor William Franklin and the election of the independent state's first governor, William Livingston.McCormick, Richard P. (1964, 1970). New Jersey from Colony to State, 1609-1789. (1st Ed - Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1964; 2nd Ed. — New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1970). See also * List of colonial governors of New Jersey The territory which w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Wilbert Tucker
Samuel Wilbert Tucker (June 18, 1913 – October 19, 1990) was an American lawyer and a cooperating attorney with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). His civil rights career began as he organized a 1939 sit-in at the then-segregated Alexandria, Virginia public library. A partner in the Richmond, Virginia, firm of Hill, Tucker and Marsh (formerly Hill, Martin and Robinson), Tucker argued and won several civil rights cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, including ''Green v. County School Board of New Kent County'' which, according to ''The Encyclopedia of Civil Rights In America'', "did more to advance school integration than any other Supreme Court decision since ''Brown''." Early life and education Tucker was born in Alexandria, Virginia, on June 18, 1913. His father, Samuel A. Tucker, a real estate agent and NAACP member, and teacher mother saw to his formal and informal education. Tucker later said: "I got involved in the civ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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