Amos Tuck
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| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Hampshire's 1st district |
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In office March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1853 |
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| Preceded by | At-large |
| Succeeded by | George W. Kittredge |
| Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives | |
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In office 1842 |
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| Born | August 2, 1810 Parsonsfield, Maine |
| Died | December 11, 1879 (aged 69) Exeter, New Hampshire |
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Democrat Independent Free Soil Whig Republican |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Amos Tuck (August 2, 1810 – December 11, 1879) was a political figure in New Hampshire and a founder of the Republican Party.
Born in Parsonsfield, Maine, August 2, 1810, the son of John Tuck, a sixth generation descendant of Robert Tuck, a founder of Hampton (Winnacunnet), New Hampshire, in 1638.
Amos Tuck attended Effingham Academy and Hampton Academy and graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1835; he studied law and passed the bar. He married Davida Nudd and had a son, Edward Tuck, on August 25, 1842, and a daughter, Ellen Tuck French, who married Francis Ormond French, President of the Manhattan Trust Company. Tuck was an earlier supporter and donor to the Free Will Baptist's Parsonfield Seminary. He is the namesake of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.
In his youth Amos Tuck came to Hampton and from 1836 to 1838 was Headmaster of the Hampton Academy founded by his ancestors. He was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Exeter. He later became a trustee of Dartmouth College. After leaving politics, Tuck was commissioned as a Naval officer of the port of Boston 1861-1865; following the American Civil War, he resumed the practice of law and also engaged in railroad building, at which he gained significant success and wealth.
Tuck was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1842 as a member of the Democratic Party but broke with pro-slavery Democratic leaders in 1844 and was formally cast out of the party. He ran for Congress, anyway, and was elected as an Independent to the Thirtieth Congress.
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