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.