Arabic fluently and for his talents as a raconteur. He went shopping in the bazaars on his own and excited comment by bargaining with merchants in their own language." After retiring from government service, he served on the board of directors of the Suez Canal in the 1950s. Personal life In October 1924, Tuck was married to Beatrice Mitchell Beck in Washington, D.C. at St. Thomas's Church in Dupont Circle in a ceremony attended by President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge. Beatrice, later a friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, was a daughter of former U.S. Representative James M. Beck, who was at the time President Coolidge's Solicitor General. Among Tuck's ushers at the wedding were the Hon. John Francis Amherst Cecil (the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington), at whose wedding to Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Tuck had been an usher four moths earlier; also Raymond Cox, Donald Rodgers, Cmmdr. Arthur L. Bristol, William J. Curtis, the bride's brother James M. Beck Jr., and William Hallem Tuck, his brother as best man. Before their divorce in 1934, they were the parents of: James Marshall Tuck (1925–2003), who married Mary Chase Nicholson, daughter of William Goldsborough Nicholson, in 1956. David Hallam Tuck (1931–2002), a stockbroker. After their divorce, Beatrice married Snowden Andrews Fahnestock (a grandson of banker Harris C. Fahnestock) in 1936. In 1936, Tuck remarried to heiress Katherine Whitney ( Demme) Douglas (1897–1981) in Paris. Katherine was the former wife of First National Bank president D. Dwight Douglas. Tuck died at the American Hospital in Paris in April 1967. His widow died in 1981 in Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan. References Notes Sources External links Somerville Pinkney Tuck Jr. (1891–1967) at the U.S. Department of State 1891 births 1967 deaths Dartmouth College alumni Ambassadors of the United States to France Ambassadors of the United States to Egypt United States Foreign Service personnel