Born July 10, 1752 in Port Royal, Bermuda.
Died November 10, 1827 in Nelson County, Virginia.

Elected by the General Assembly on January 6, 1804 to fill the vacancy created by the death of Edmund Pendleton and began his service on April 11, 1804. Service terminated by resignation.

Education:

Attended grammar school in St. George’s, Bermuda, 1768-1770.
Attended College of William and Mary, 1772.
Studied law with George Wythe, 1772-1773.

Other judicial Service:

Judge, General Court, 1789-1804.
Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Virginia (and later the Eastern District of Virginia), 1813-1825.

Professional career:

Private practice of law in Williamsburg (1772-1776 and 1811-1813) and in Richmond, Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, and Amelia, Virginia (1781-1788).
Clerk, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, 1774.
Business (shipping smuggled goods from Bermuda), 1775-1779.
Council of State, 1782.
Commonwealth’s attorney, Chesterfield County, Virginia, 1783-1786.
Notary public, Petersburg, Virginia, 1784.
Delegate, Annapolis Convention, 1786.
Rector, College of William and Mary, 1789-1790.
Professor of law and police, College of William and Mary, 1790-1804.
Author, William Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England, the first major treatise on American law, first published in 1803.

Military service:

Revolutionary War (Continental Army).

Further reading/Research collections

Sources:

Elected, Journal of the Virginia House of Delegates of the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1804 Session, 68; dates of qualification and resignation, 16 Va., xx; birth, death, and professional career, Tucker, St. George, Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, retrieved on April 6, 2020; Charles T. Cullen, “St. George Tucker, College of William and Mary, 1790-1804,” in W. Hamilton Bryson, Legal Education in Virginia: A Biographical Approach, 1779-1979 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1982), 657-686; attended the College of William and Mary in 1772, then left the college to study law with George Wythe, Charles T. Cullen, “St. George Tucker,” W. Hamilton Bryson, ed., The Virginia Law Reporters Before 1800 (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1983), 104-105; portrait, Library of Virginia portrait files; painting, after 1808 engraving by Charles Balthazar Julien Févret de Saint-Mémin. The 1932 painting was loaned to the Commonwealth of Virginia by a private owner from 1963 to 1989.