Maj. John H. Tucker, Jr., Pine Bluff, AR., then Caddo Parish, Louisiana

Submitted by Mike Miller
Date: 1999-2000






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Maj. John H. Tucker, Jr.  The service record of Maj. John H. Tucker, 

Jr., reflects honor and credit upon his adopted State of Louisiana 

and his home city of Shreveport, where since the war he has become 

prominently known as a successful attorney.



Major Tucker was born at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, February 25, 1891.  

He was liberally educated, graduating with the A. B. degree in 1910

 from Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia.  In 1915 

he came to Louisiana, and for several years made his home at Baton 

Rouge.  While there he became interested in the state military 

establishment, and as a member of Company H of the First Louisiana 

Regiment, National Guard, went to the Mexican border in 1916, remaining

there during the summer and fall.  On March 30, 1917, just a week 

before America entered the World war, he was commissioned a second 

lieutenant in the First Louisiana Regiment, and he was in service with 

the National Army from the beginning until after the end of the war.



He remained with the First Louisiana until September, 1917, when he 

was made aide-de-camp on the staff of Brig.-Gen. W. S. Metcalf, then 

in command of the Seventy-seventh Infantry Brigade of the Thirty-ninth 

Division, stationed at Camp Beauregard, Louisiana.  In June, 1918, 

when General Metcalf was retired for age, and was succeeded by Gen. 

Miles P. Richardson, as commander of the Thirty. ninth Division, 

Major Tucker was transferred to the staff of General Richardson as 

aide-de-camp, in August of that year he sailed with General Richardson 

for France, and accompanied General Richardson on a tour of observation 

with the Third Division and the Ninetieth Division, then engaged in 

action in the Argonne.  In November, 1918, General Richardson was 

assigned the command of the Fifty-fifth infantry of the Twenty-eighth 

Division, and Major Tucker remained on his staff in France until March,

1919.



In the spring of 1919 he went to Russia, where General Richardson was 

assigned command of the American Expeditionary Forces in North Russia, 

stationed at Archangel, and Major Tucker had his duty in that outpost 

of the far north from April 1 to July, 1919.  Returning home, he was 

discharged with the rank of first lieutenant on September 10, 1919, 

and has since been promoted to the rank of captain and then major in 

the Officers' Reserve Corps of the United States Army.



Major Tucker in 1920 graduated with the degree Bachelor of Laws from 

the Louisiana State University, and was admitted to the Louisiana bar 

the same year.  He then engaged in practice at Shreveport, where he is 

a member of the prominent law firm of Smitherman & Tucker, with offices

 in the Commercial National Bank Building.  Major Tucker in 1923 was 

honored with the office of president of the Reserve Officers' Association 

of Louisiana.



A History of Louisiana, (vol. 2), p. 46, by Henry E. Chambers.  

Published by The American Historical Society, Inc., Chicago and New York, 1925.