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Starling Tucker

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Starling Tucker (1770 - January 3, 1834) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina. Born in Halifax County, North Carolina, Tucker moved to Mountain Shoals (now Enoree), South Carolina. 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.

Source

  • United States Congress. "Starling Tucker (id: T000402)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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Political offices
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from South Carolina's 5th congressional district

1817–1823
Succeeded by

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