Samuel Tucker (politician)
Samuel Tucker | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1721 |
| Died | 1789 |
| Occupation | colonial politician |
Samuel Tucker (1721–1789) was an American colonial politician who served as a Freeholder in Hunterdon County, New Jersey during the colonial period, and later as President and Treasurer of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey during the American Revolutionary War.[1] During this period, the colony converted to an independent state in 1776 after the ouster of Royal Governor William Franklin and the election of the independent state's first governor, William Livingston.[1][2][3][4]
He was a merchant and landowner in Hunterdon County.[5] He was a justice of the court, high sheriff of Hunterdon County, and assemblyman from 1769 to 1776. He was President of the Provincial Congress of New Jersey from 1775 to 1776.
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- ^ a b Schuyler, Hamilton. "CHAPTER II: Trenton and Trentonians in the Revolutionary Era" in A History of Trenton, 1679-1929: Two Hundred and Fifty Years of a Notable Town with Links in Four Centuries. (Trenton, New Jersey: Trenton Historical Society, 1929).
- ^ Skemp, Sheila L. William Franklin: Son of a Patriot, Servant of a King. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), 211.
- ^ Kemmerer, Donald L. Path to Freedom, The Struggle for Self Government in Colonial New Jersey 1703-1776. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1940).
- ^ McCormick, Richard P. (1964, 1970). New Jersey from Colony to State, 1609-1789. (1st Ed - Princeton: Van Nostrand, 1964; 2nd Ed. — New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1970).
- ^ "New Jersey in the American Revolution, 1763-1783" (PDF).