Irwin St. John Tucker

AKA: Friar Tuck

Released

Date of birth:10. 01. 1886

Date of death:08. 01. 1982

Age:95^{† Deceased}

Gender:Male

Race:White

Era:1910s

State:Illinois

Time Imprisoned:

1 Year 11 Months 11 Days

Support

Anti-Militarism Anti-War Socialism Anarchism Socialist Party of America

Biography

Irwin St. John Tucker Born in Mobile, Alabama; Episcopal priest (ordained 1913, General Theological Seminary), Socialist Party member from 1912. Director of the SP National Office Literature Department in summer 1917, where he authored the antiwar pamphlet "The Price We Pay." Co-defendant in the Chicago Trial of Five. Conviction vacated by Berger v. US (1921). Served as priest-in-charge of St. Stephen's, Chicago (1927–1954); reinstated as Episcopal priest in 1970 at age 84.