After moving with his family to the Missouri territory in 1816, Tucker served as a circuit court judge from 1817 until 1832.

Tucker serves on various other corporate and non-profit boards in his Yale House Ventures capacity.

Tucker also served as commanding officer of the schooner Franklin.

Tucker held several local offices and served as member of the South Carolina House of Representatives.

Tucker served two two-year terms as attorney general, 1973-1977.

Tucker served in the Military Police Corps for three years after high school.

Tucker served on medical missions to Jamaica in 2008 and Guatemala from 2009-2011.

Tucker lettered twice and served as team captain during his senior year on the basketball team.

From 1875 to 1887, Graves taught alone, while Tucker served in Congress.

Tucker served on the two commissions, forty-two years apart, that revised hymnals of the Episcopal Church.