Amos Tuck
Amos Tuck (August 2, 1810 – December 11, 1879) was an American attorney and politician in New Hampshire and a founder of the Republican Party in New Hampshire.
Amos Tuck
August 2, 1810
Parsonsfield, Maine, Massachusetts, U.S.
December 11, 1879 (aged 69)
Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.
Republican (from 1856)
Democratic (until 1844)
Liberty (1844–1846)
Independent (1846–1848)
Free Soil (1848–1850)
Whig (1850–1854)
Amos Tuck French (grandson)
Lawyer
Early life and education[edit]
Born in Parsonsfield, Maine, August 2, 1810, the son of John Tuck, a sixth-generation descendant of Robert Tuck, a founder of Hampton, New Hampshire, in 1638. Tuck attended Effingham Academy and Hampton Academy and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1835. He studied law and passed the bar.
Personal life[edit]
Tuck married Davida Nudd and had three surviving children; a daughter, Abigail, in 1935, a son, Edward Tuck, on August 25, 1842, and a daughter, Ellen Tuck French, in 1938, who married Francis Ormond French, President of the Manhattan Trust Company. Her daughter, also Ellen Tuck French, married Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt in 1901.
Tuck died in Exeter, New Hampshire, on December 11, 1879. He was interred in Exeter Cemetery.
His son, Edward Tuck, financed and founded at Dartmouth College the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, and funded the New Hampshire Historical Society building, a "beautiful" granite structure in Concord, New Hampshire.
Family and political descendants founded the "Amos Tuck Society" to promote and spread the history of Tuck's contributions to the Republican Party. Edward Tuck also graduate from, and become a major donor to, Dartmouth College. He made his fortune in banking, railroads and international trade, becoming vice-consul to France.