Herbert Tuckerman

Herbert Sears Tuckerman (May 2, 1921 – August 8, 2007) was an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Senate.

Early life Tuckerman was born on May 2, 1921, in Boston. His father Bayard Tuckerman Jr. was a jockey, businessman, and politician who helped found Suffolk Downs. His mother, Phyllis (Sears) Tuckerman was the daughter of Herbert M. Sears, an early financier of the first textile mills in Lowell and one of the richest men in Boston. Tuckerman grew up in Boston and Hamilton, Massachusetts.

Tuckerman attended Harvard University, where he was a member of the Porcellian Club and the Hasty Pudding Institute. In 1941 he left college to join the United States Army. He served under General George Patton, who was a fellow resident of Hamilton. On Victory in Europe Day, Tuckerman took custody of Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick, who was later hanged.

Later life and death Tuckerman's wife died in 1998. Shortly after her death he married Carol Crumpton.

On August 4, 2007, he was diagnosed with leukemia. Four days later he died at a hospice in Danvers, Massachusetts.