Tucker was born in Winchester , Virginia , the son of Congressman Henry St. George Tucker , Sr. and Ann Evelina Hunter . Thus he was the brother of John Randolph Tucker , Congressman , and the uncle of Henry St. George Tucker , III , Congressman . He was named for the writer and judge Nathaniel Beverley Tucker , his own uncle . Tucker was educated at the University of Virginia . He founded the '' Washington Sentinel '' and was its editor from 1853 to 1856 . In December 1853 he was elected printer to the United States Senate , and in 1857 he was appointed consul to Liverpool , England , where he remained until 1861 . Then he joined the Confederate Army . The Confederate government sent him to the United Kingdom and France in 1862 , and to Canada in 1863 – 64 , to arrange the trade of cotton for food . He also made some secret diplomatic representations to Northern men of influence . During the War he was on the Union " Wanted List " , and in its aftermath he was charged as a conspirator in the successful 1865 plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln . Although he was never arrested , he was never pardoned either . After the War he went to Mexico , and remained there until the reign of Maximilian I of Mexico ( not recognized by the U.S. ) came to an end in June 1867 , when he returned to Canada . Upon returning to the United States in 1869 , he resided in Washington , D.C. , and Berkeley Springs , West Virginia . In 1890 he died in Richmond , Virginia
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Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (journalist)