Joseph John Tucker | |
Smallimage: | Joseph John Tucker.jpg |
Constituency Mp: | City and County of St. John |
Parliament: | Canadian |
Predecessor: | John Alexander Chesley |
Successor: | Alfred Augustus Stockton |
Term Start: | 1896 |
Term End: | 1904 |
Birth Date: | 1832 |
Birth Place: | Chatham, Kent, England |
Death Date: | November 23, 1914 (aged 81–82) |
Death Place: | Saint John, New Brunswick |
Party: | Liberal |
Joseph John Tucker (1832 - November 23, 1914) was a Canadian politician.
Born in Chatham, Kent, England, the son of John Tucker,[1] Joseph emigrated to Canada with his father at an early age. He was, for twenty years, the chief surveyor for Lloyds in the East and resided in Shanghai.[2] Tucker commanded a transport vessel during the Crimean War. He was a Lieutenant-Colonel with the 62nd Battalion, Saint John Fusiliers. He was elected to the House of Commons of Canada for the New Brunswick electoral district of City and County of Saint John in the 1896 federal election. A Liberal, he was re-elected in 1900. Tucker was president and partner for the Morning Telegraph Publishing Company and a director of the Saint John Railway Company.[1]