{"id":2010,"date":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2010"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"tucker, irwin st. john, 1886-1982  ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2010","title":{"rendered":"TUCKER, IRWIN ST. JOHN, 1886-1982"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Clergyman, writer.  Born&#8211;  Jan. 10, 1886 in Mobile.  Parents&#8211; Gardiner C. and  Melville Leigh (Eckford) Tucker.  Married&#8211;  Ellen Dorothy O&#8217;Reilly on July 14, 1914.  Children&#8211;  Three.  Education&#8211;  General Theological Seminary in New York, B.D.; attended Columbia University.  Protestant Episcopal priest, 1913-1950; after 1927 at St. Stephen&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Chicago; converted to Roman Catholicism 1950; assistant news editor and religious editor Chicago Herald American, 1924-1954; president after 1948 of Patriarchal Council of the Church of the East; president of the Aramaic Institute; editor of Light from the East; literature director for American Socialist Party; contributed poetry to Chicago Tribune under pseudonym &#8220;Friar Tuck.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Contemporary Authors, Vol. 105; Who Was Who in America, Vol. 7.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Chosen Nation.  Chicago;  Author, 1919.  <\/p>\n<p>     A History of Imperialism.  New York;  Rand School of Social Science, 1920. <\/p>\n<p>     Internationalism;  the Problem of the Hour.  Chicago;  Author, 1918? <\/p>\n<p>     A Minstrel Friar;  His Legacy of Song.  Chicago;  R. F. Seymour, 1949. <\/p>\n<p>     Now It Must Be Done.  Chicago;  Socialist Party of the United States, 1920. <\/p>\n<p>     Out of the Hell Box.  New York;  Morehouse-Gorham Co., 1945. <\/p>\n<p>     Poems of a Socialist Priest.  Chicago;  Author, 1915. <\/p>\n<p>     The Sangreal.  Chicago;  Author, 1919. <\/p>\n<p>     Songs of the Gulf Coast.  Chicago;  Sunrise, 1972. <\/p>\n<p>     Stop-go;  the Ten Commandments for a Modern Child.  New York;  Morehouse, 1946. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Compiler:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Tucker Family.  Evanston, Ill.;  Compiler, 1976.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Clergyman, writer. Born&#8211; Jan. 10, 1886 in Mobile. Parents&#8211; Gardiner C. and Melville Leigh (Eckford) Tucker. Married&#8211; Ellen Dorothy O&#8217;Reilly on July 14, 1914. Children&#8211; Three. Education&#8211; General Theological Seminary in New York, B.D.; attended Columbia University. Protestant Episcopal priest, 1913-1950; after 1927 at St. Stephen&#8217;s Episcopal Church in Chicago; converted to Roman Catholicism [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-t-v"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}