Office: | Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from Richmond City |
Term Start: | January 11, 1950 |
Term End: | January 8, 1958 |
Preceded: | Edward T. Haynes |
Succeeded: | Thomas N. Parker Jr. |
Birth Name: | John Randolph Tucker Jr. |
Birth Date: | 29 June 1914 |
Birth Place: | Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
Death Place: | Richmond, Virginia, U.S. |
Resting Place: | Hollywood Cemetery |
Party: | Democratic |
Father: | J. Randolph Tucker |
Spouse: | Helen McRae Wilkinson |
Alma Mater: | Virginia Military Institute |
Profession: | lawyer, judge |
Allegiance: | United States |
Branch: | United States Army |
Serviceyears: | 1940–1946 |
Rank: | Lieutenant colonel |
Battles: | World War II |
John Randolph "Bunny" Tucker Jr. (June 29, 1914 – November 27, 2015) (nicknamed "Bunny") was an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1950 to 1958, and later as a judge of the Circuit Court in Richmond.[1]
He was born in Richmond, Virginia to the former Mary Byrd Harrison (1884–1959) and John Randolph Tucker Sr. (1879–1954). His paternal grandfather was Henry St. George Tucker III, and Bunny Tucker would be the sixth generation of lawyers and judges in the family.
Although other family members had attended Washington and Lee University for their undergraduate education, Bunny Tucker attended the Virginia Military Institute, graduating in 1937. During World War II, Tucker rose to the rank of lieutenant colonel, leading an Army tank crew which, among other European campaigns, liberated Mons, Belgium. He did attend and graduate from the Washington and Lee Law School after the war.