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William M. Tuck was born near High Hill in Halifax County, Virginia. After service in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War I, he attended the College of William and Mary and earned a law degree from Washington and Lee University. He served three terms in the Virginia House of Delegates, then in the Virginia Senate from 1932 to 1942 and as Lieutenant Governor from 1942 to 1946. As Governor of Virginia from 1946 to 1950, he worked for passage of Virginia's Right-to-Work Act. He later served in the United States House of Representatives from 1953 to 1969 and died in South Boston on June 9, 1983.
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