The father practiced as well as taught law at Washington and Lee University, and also served as U.S. Representative from 1889 to 1897 and from 1922 to 1932.

Their daughter married Francis Thornton Greene and lived in Warrenton, Virginia and their son J. Randolph Tucker Jr. (nicknamed "Bunny"; 1914–2015) would become a lawyer and member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1950 to 1958 state senator and later a judge of the Circuit Court of the City of Richmond.

There he worked under the firm's founding partners, Beverley B. Munford, Eppa Hunton Jr., E. Randolph Williams, and Henry W. Anderson, and alongside fellow-associate Thomas B.

464-85 (1917), and taught various courses relating to business and constitutional law, as well as insurance, bailment, wills and administration, and equity procedures.

[3] As President of the Henrico Citizens League, Tucker led efforts to adopt a county manager form of government in Henrico County, which caused the Board of Supervisors to name John Randolph Tucker High School in his honor after his death, which occurred in Richmond, Virginia on June 12, 1954.