Edgar Parks Rucker (December 23, 1861 – April 21, 1908) was an American lawyer, politician, and businessman in the U.S. state of West Virginia.

Rucker relocated to Princeton, where he practiced law for three years; then to Bramwell, where he was editor of the Flat Top Monitor.

Edgar Parks Rucker was born in Covington, Virginia, on December 23, 1861, during the early period of the American Civil War.

[16][17] After his marriage to Maude Applegate in January 1888, Rucker and his wife relocated to Princeton, where he practiced law for three years.

[3][4][10] On September 3, 1890, he was commissioned as a first lieutenant in the West Virginia National Guard's 2nd Regiment, Company A, which was organized and mustered into service in Princeton.

[18] In 1892, Rucker then moved to Bramwell in the burgeoning Pocahontas Coalfield region, where he remained for one year and served as the editor of the Flat Top Monitor, a Republican newspaper.

[10] This partnership lasted until 1898, after which Rucker was joined by other law partners, including Luther C. Anderson, William Wellington Hughes, and Daniel J. F.

[28][29] On July 23, 1896, at the state convention in Parkersburg, he was formally nominated as the Republican candidate for attorney general,[30] and in November, he ran for election against Democratic incumbent Thomas S.

[1][33][34] At the start of his term, he was directed by the West Virginia Board of Public Works to represent the state in the case Pittsburgh, C., C. & St. L. Ry.

Co. v. Board of Public Works of West Virginia, 172 U.S. 32., and appeared before the U.S. Supreme Court alongside his predecessors Riley and Thayer Melvin.

[37] In September 1897, Rucker went to Keystone to intervene in a mob intending to lynch Tom Major, who was being held in jail in connection with the murder of special officer Newt Hines.

[35] Rucker went to Wheeling and assisted Ohio County prosecuting attorney W. C. Meyer in instituting proceedings against the saloonkeepers who were violating state law.

[20] In April 1908, Rucker underwent surgery at Episcopal Hospital in Washington, D.C., to remove from his nose a malignant polyp that had caused a partial loss of eyesight.

[49] At the West Virginia Republican Party's 6th Senate district meeting at Keystone in August 1908, a resolution expressing sorrow at Rucker's death was passed.

Always intensely active, wholly devoted to the interests of his clients, ever resourceful, particularly in an emergency, a fine orator, a born leader of men, he was a good lawyer and a splendid gentleman.