Representative George Franklin Tucker View All Years

Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 9/15/1923
Birth Place: Princeton, Wisconsin
Party Affiliation: Republican
Assemblies Served:
House: 36 (1915) - 37 (1917)
Home County: Clinton
George Franklin Tucker
Clinton County

GEORGE F. TUCKER was born in Princeton, Wisconsin, July 16, 1868, and died in Clinton, Iowa, September 15, 1923. His education was received in common school in Dodge County, Minnesota, and in grade school in Princeton, Wisconsin. He learned the printer’s trade in the office of the Princeton Republican. He removed to Iowa in 1897. He was employed by the Clinton Advertiser over twenty years, being a linotype machinist much of the time. He was prominent in labor circles, was twice elected to the Clinton City Council, and was elected representative in 1914, and re-elected in 1916, serving in the Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh general assemblies. He was a Republican in politics.