Walter Rupert Tuckerman was an American lawyer, banker, golfer, and philanthropist.
25 Facts About Walter Tuckerman
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Walter Tuckerman led development of the Edgemoor neighborhood of Bethesda.
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Walter Tuckerman was a direct descendant of Oliver Wolcott, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence.
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Walter Tuckerman was a cousin of horse rider Bayard Tuckerman Jr.
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In 1899, Walter Tuckerman graduated from Morristown School in Morristown, New Jersey.
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Walter Tuckerman later served as a member of the school's Board of Trustees and as president of its alumni association.
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In 1903, Walter Tuckerman received his bachelor's degree from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Walter Tuckerman then completed his law degree at George Washington University in Washington, DC in 1907.
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Walter Tuckerman took on the role of president of the Union Savings Bank, and then served as a member of the Board of Directors of the National Metropolitan Bank.
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In 1912, Walter Tuckerman purchased the Watkins dairy farm in Maryland owned by Otis Watkins.
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Walter Tuckerman took the moor ending from a road named Moorland Lane.
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Walter Tuckerman developed a tennis and swimming club for Edgemoor called the Edgemoor Club.
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Walter Tuckerman later helped organize Bethesda's volunteer fire department and public library, and he contributed tracts of land to construct their buildings.
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In 1929, Walter Tuckerman's estate housed five US Senators during legislative work on the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930.
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Three years later, Walter Tuckerman won the 1910 Mid-Winter Tournament and the Spring Tournament at Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina.
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Walter Tuckerman finished runner-up at the North and South Men's Amateur Golf Championship at Pinehurst.
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In 1911, Walter Tuckerman won the Shinnecock Hills Tournament at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, New York, on Long Island.
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Walter Tuckerman later captured the Washington Metropolitan Amateur Championship in 1914 and 1923 when Chevy Chase Country Club hosted the tournament in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
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Walter Tuckerman played in the US Senior Golf Association Tournament and the seniors international triangular matches.
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Walter Tuckerman helped lay out the golf course at Congressional Country Club, now a club on the PGA Tour.
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Walter Tuckerman said, "They called it Potomac, the Place of the Burning Tree".
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Walter Tuckerman served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Church Orphanage Association of St John's and as its corporate secretary.
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Walter Tuckerman served as Secretary of the Finance Committee of the American Red Cross's Washington, DC Chapter and chaired the Board of Trustees of the American Red Cross's Bethesda Chapter.
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Walter Tuckerman chaired the Board of Trustees of the Social Services League's Bethesda Branch.
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On December 28,1910, Walter Tuckerman married Edith Abercrombie-Miller, daughter of James Abercrombie-Miller, at Grace Episcopal Church in Madison, New Jersey.