15 Facts About Amos Tuck

Amos Tuck was an American attorney and politician in New Hampshire and a founder of the Republican Party.

Amos Tuck attended Effingham Academy and Hampton Academy and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1835.

Amos Tuck was an early supporter and donor to the Free Will Baptist's Parsonfield Seminary.

Amos Tuck is the namesake of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Amos Tuck was a leading citizen of Exeter, New Hampshire, for 40 years and played an important part in Exeter's history between 1838 - 1879.

Amos Tuck was admitted to the bar in 1838 and commenced practice in Exeter.

Amos Tuck was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1842 as a member of the Democratic Party but broke with pro-slavery Democratic leaders in 1844 and was formally cast out of the party.

Amos Tuck ran for Congress, anyway, and was elected as an Independent to the Thirtieth Congress.

Amos Tuck himself ran as a Free-Soil candidate to the Thirty-first Congress, and as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress.

Amos Tuck organized a secret meeting, on October 12,1853, at Major Blake's Hotel in Exeter of a group of anti-slavery men.

Amos Tuck helped form the state Republican party in 1856 and was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1856 and 1860.

Amos Tuck was appointed a delegate to the peace convention held in Washington, DC, in 1861 in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war.

Amos Tuck was a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln, John Greenleaf Whittier and many other men prominent in his time, and is said to be responsible for putting Lincoln in office.

Amos Tuck died in Exeter, New Hampshire, on December 11,1879.

Amos Tuck made his fortune in banking, railroads and international trade, becoming vice-consul to France.