Multnomah County OR Archives Biographies.....Tucker, Judge Robert 
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     JUDGE ROBERT TUCKER.  For more than two decades Portland has been the 
scene of the professional activities of Judge Robert Tucker, whose name is 
inscribed high on the Keystone of Oregon’s legal arch because of his talents 
as a lawyer and jurist and his strong sense of duty and honor. In the field of 
public service he has done notable work, becoming widely and favorably known 
as judge of the circuit court of Multnomah county, an office which he has 
filled with distinction for a period of twelve years.

     Judge Tucker was born in Knox county, Ohio, a son of John and Rose B. 
(Welker) Tucker, the former a skilled mechanic. Reared in the Buckeye state, 
the son obtained his early education in his native county and displayed his 
strength of character by working his way through the University of Akron, 
which awarded him the degree of Ph. B. in 1891. His legal studies were pursued 
in the University of Cincinnati, from which he was graduated in 1893, and 
after his admission to the Ohio bar he located in Toledo. For six years he 
practiced in that city with the law firm of Swayne, Swayne & Hayes and his 
pronounced ability as a trial lawyer won for him the appointment of assistant 
United States attorney for the northern district of Ohio, western division. He 
met every requirement of the position, which he held for five years, and then 
tendered his resignation, returning to private practice. In 1906 he yielded to 
the lure of the west, opening an office in Portland, and practiced until his 
appointment as assistant United States district attorney for Oregon. After 
retiring from that office he engaged in private practice in Portland until 
1916, when he was elected judge of department III of the Multnomah county 
circuit, over which he has since presided. During his service on the bench 
Judge Tucker has displayed loyalty to the law, coupled with a keen sense of 
justice and vigor in administering the same, which have stamped him as one of 
the leading jurists of the state. Methodical and systematic, he discharges the 
business of his court with promptness and dispatch, and it is a matter of 
common observation that relatively few appeals are taken from his decisions 
and in most of these his rulings stand. In 1921 Governor Olcott appointed him 
to a vacancy in the supreme court occasioned by the resignation of Justice 
Johns, but this honor Judge Tucker declined, preferring to remain in judicial 
service on the bench of Multnomah county. Industrious, able, fearless and 
honest, he possesses exceptional qualifications for the office and was 
nominated for reelection at the primary election May 18, 1928, receiving the 
nomination on both the republican and democratic tickets. His well rounded 
character, broad experience, finely balanced mind and legal erudition have 
made Judge Tucker a valuable asset to the bench and he should be retained 
there for the best interests of the administration of justice.

     In 1893 Judge Tucker was united in marriage to Miss Gertrude E. Wynn, of 
Bryan, Ohio, and they have become the parents of a son Harland Wynn, who is 
married and resides in Los Angeles, California. A scion of one of the colonial 
families of this country, Judge Tucker is affiliated with the Sons of the 
American Revolution and also has membership relations with many civic 
organizations and business clubs of Portland. His Masonic connections are with 
Columbia Lodge, No. 114, F. & A. M., of which he is a past master; Oregon 
Consistory, No. 1, A. & A. S. R., and Al Kader Temple of the Mystic Shrine, 
The Multnomah County Bar Association has honored him with its presidency as 
well as the Oregon State Bar Association. He is a man of broad sympathies and 
a natural arbiter of human differences -— a judge in all that the name implies.


Additional Comments:
History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. II, 
Pages 638-639

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