Tucker, George, 1780-1848

George Tucker was an attorney, U.S. Congressman, author, and a the first professor of Moral Philosophy at William & Mary. He was born on St. George's Island in Bermuda, the son of mayor Daniel Tucker and Mary Elizabeth Hyrne Tucker. He was a cousin of St. George Tucker. He married first, Mary Byrd Farley, then next Mary Carter and had several children. He married Louisa A. Bowdoin Evans Jackson Thompson Tucker on December 9, 1828 in Baltimore. They lived in Pavilion IX on the University of Virginia Campus. His most noted book was The Valley of Shenandoah (1824), the first fictional book about life in Virginia, and he also wrote A Voyage to the Moon (1827), one of the earliest works of science fiction. In 1837, he published a biography, The Life of Thomas Jefferson, Third President of the United States. He's buried at the University of Virginia Cemetery and Columbarium.