Starling Tucker Explained

Starling Tucker
State1:South Carolina
Term Start1:March 4, 1823
Term End1:March 3, 1831
Predecessor1:John Carter
Successor1:John K. Griffin
State2:South Carolina
Term Start2:March 4, 1817
Term End2:March 3, 1823
Predecessor2:William Woodward
Successor2:George McDuffie
Office3:Member of the South Carolina Senate from Laurens District
Term3:November 24, 1806  - December 20, 1816
Predecessor3:James Saxon
Successor3:William Clark
Office4:Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from Laurens District
Term4:November 24, 1801  - November 24, 1806
Birth Date: 1770
Birth Place:Halifax County, Province of North Carolina, British America
Death Place:Mountain Shoals, South Carolina, U.S.
Resting Place:Enoree, South Carolina
Party:Jacksonian
Otherparty:Democratic-Republican

Starling Tucker (1770January 3, 1834) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina. Born in Halifax County in the Province of North Carolina, Tucker moved to Mountain Shoals, South Carolina (now Enoree). He received a limited education.

Tucker held several local offices and served as member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. Tucker was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress. He was reelected to the Sixteenth through Nineteenth Congresses and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth and Twenty-first Congresses (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1831). He died in Mountain Shoals (now Enoree), South Carolina, January 3, 1834. He was interred in the private burial ground on the family estate west of Enoree, South Carolina.