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American economist and statistician, he was born in Bermuda, the offspring of a family prominent there and in Virginia. When he joined the faculty of the University of Virginia in 1825, he had already made a name for himself as a lawyer, man of letters and member of Congress.
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Spiegel, H.W. (2018). Tucker, George (1775–1861). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_1545
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