Walter Adam Tucker (March 11, 1899 – September 19, 1990) was a Canadian politician. Born in

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, Tucker earned his BA from the

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.Yazinowski, Dwayne
Tucker, Walter Adam (1899–1990)
''Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan'', February 12, 2008 He won a seat in the

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where he was a

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MP for

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from 1935 until 1948. He served as parliamentary assistant to the Minister of Veterans Affairs from 1945 to 1948. He moved to provincial politics to lead the

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in the 1948 provincial election against the CCF government of

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promoting the Liberals as the defenders of capitalism against the socialist CCF. While Tucker was able to win a seat in the provincial legislature and become

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, he failed in his attempts to defeat the CCF government in 1948 and then again in

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. He resigned his seat in the provincial legislature in 1953; replaced in a byelection by Samuel Henry Carr; and returned to the federal House of Commons in the 1953 federal election. He was re-elected in the 1957 election but defeated in the

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landslide the following year in the 1958 election.Walter Adam Tucker Parliamentary biography
Library of Parliament, accessed February 12, 2008 In 1963, he was appointed to the

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where he served as a judge until 1974. His daughter, Shirley Tucker Parks,

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(1930–2010), qualified as a lawyer in Saskatchewan in 1955, one of very few women in Canada to so qualify at that time. During a career that spanned positions at the

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, the

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and

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, Shirley Parks was notable as a tireless advocate of the furtherance of the legal rights of women.Death Notice of Shirley Parks
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Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan {{DEFAULTSORT:Tucker, Walter Adam 1899 births 1990 deaths Members of the House of Commons of Canada from Saskatchewan Liberal Party of Canada MPs Saskatchewan Liberal Party MLAs Judges in Saskatchewan Leaders of the Saskatchewan Liberal Party