Nathaniel Beverley Tucker

Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (June 8, 1820 – July 4, 1890) was an American journalist, printer, and diplomat. During the American Civil War he was a Confederate States (Southern) economic agent in France, England, and Canada, and also a secret representative in the North. Biography Tucker was born in Winchester, Virginia, the son of Congressman Henry St. George Tucker, Sr. and Ann Evelina Hunter. Thus he was the brother of John Randolph Tucker, Congressman, and the uncle of Henry St. George Tucker, III, Congressman. He was named for the writer and judge Nathaniel Beverley Tucker, his own uncle. Tucker was educated at the University of Virginia. He founded the Washington Sentinel and was its editor from 1853 to 1856. In December 1853 he was elected printer to the United States Senate, and in 1857 he was appointed consul to Liverpool, England, where he remained until 1861. Then he joined the Confederate Army.