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Some Virginia Lawyers of the Past and Present.

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when he died. When he was dying one of for ten years represented the 10th district of his daughters said to him, that the doGtors Virginia in Congress. He ably maintained the honor of the Tucker name and reputa were placing great reliance upon his consti tution. " Yes," he replied, " I was always tion. He is the author of an Act repealing strong on the Constitution." He delivered the Federal election law, which restored to a delightful address before the Richmond the people of the South the right to manage Bar Association in 1895, " Reminiscences of their own elections for Congress and the presidency. He was chairman of the com Virginia judges and jurists."

He was president of the American Bar mittee on election of president and vicepresident and repre Association in 1892— sentatives in Con 93. In 1896 he read gress, and a member before the National of the Committee on Association a splen Foreign Relations. did paper on "Legal Of James Madison, Education." He as of Thomas Jeffer wrote a paper for the son, it can be said, his Virginia Law Regis education as a lawyer ter, on the Monroe meant much in his doctrine at the time success in life. In of the commence his youth he made ment of the trouble himself perfect mas between Great Britain ter of constitutional and Venezuela, and law. He was born on delivered an address •he 1 6th of March, at the American Con ference on Interna 1 75 1. He was de tional Arbitration at scended from a royal Washington. He was ist refugee of 1653. Dean of the Washing For more than sixty ton and Lee Univer years he was in public sity school of law. life and it has been truly said: "No Judge T. R. B. American statesman Wright says : "Ora WILLIAM GREEN. has done more to tor, debater and ripe build up our political and civil institutions. scholar, he charmed with graceful and spark ling speech and eloquence; brilliant and As a soldier of the Revolution, member of profound, his writings flash as if studded the great convention, member of Congress, with diamonds. A leader of brilliant and President of the United States, he dis thought in American jurisprudence, whether tinguished himself. He died on the 28th in or out of the American Congress, the of June, 1836, when eighty-seven years old, deeply mourned throughout the country. highest authority on constitutional and par liamentary law, sound in diplomacy, a William Wirt was born November 8th, professor of law profound and philosophic, 1772. His parents were very poor and the knightly John Randolph Tucker." Well he was the youngest of six children. His did he deserve his sobriquet of " Rare Ran father was Swiss and his mother a Ger Tucker." He died on the 13th of February, man. He was admitted to practice law 1897. His son, Hon. H. St. George Tucker first in Culpepper county. His first case,