TUCKER, Henry Holcombe, clergyman, born in Warren county, Georgia, 10 May, 1819. He received his early education in Philadelphia, and entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1834, but finished his course in Columbian college (now university), Washington, D. C., where he was graduated in 1838. He then studied law, was called to the bar in 1846, and practised his profession until 1848, when he entered Mercer university with the view of preparing himself for the Baptist ministry. He was appointed pastor of the Baptist church in Alexandria, Virginia, in 1854, but feeble health compelled him to resign in less than a year. Since that time he has held no pastorate, but has preached in various parts of the United States. In 1856 he was elected professor of belles-lettres and metaphysics in Mercer university, which office he filled until 1862, when the university was for a time suspended by the war. In 1.860 he received the degree of D. D. from Columbian university, he was elected president of Mercer university in 1866, and was principally instrumental in removing that institution from Penfield to Macon. He resigned in 1871, and spent a year in Europe, during which he assisted in the organization of a Baptist church in Rome, and officiated for several months in the American chapel in Paris. In 1874 he was elected chancellor of the University of Georgia, and he remained in this office until 1878, when he assumed the editorship of the "Christian Index" at Atlanta. He was the founder of the Georgia relief and hospital association, which rendered such great assistance to the sick and wounded of the south during the civil war. Besides a series of letters on " Religious Liberty" to Alexander II. Stephens (1855), which were the subject of wide comment, and several sermons, he has published "The Gospel in Enoch, or Truth in the Concrete: a Doctrinal and Biographical Sketch" (Philadelphia, 1868), and " The Old Theology restated in Sermons" (1884). One of his sermons, " The Position of Baptism in the Christian System" (1882), has been translated into Armenian, German, Greek, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. He is now editor and proprietor of the " Christian Index."