J. Randolph Tucker Jr.
American politician (1914–2015)
John Randolph "Bunny" Tucker Jr. (June 29, 1914 – November 27, 2015) 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.
Early and family life
John Randolph Tucker Jr. 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. Bunny Tucker attended the Virginia Military Institute, graduating in 1937. He later graduated from Washington and Lee Law School in 1948.
Career
Tucker enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1940 and served in Normandy, Northern France, the Rhineland, Ardennes and the Central European theaters during World War II. He led an Army tank crew which, among other European campaigns, liberated Mons, Belgium on September 2, 1944.
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