Joseph Tuckerman (January 18, 1778 Boston – April 20, 1840 Havana) was a United States clergyman and philanthropist.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1798, where William Ellery Channing was in his class, and Joseph Story roomed with him.

[4] He was appointed by the American Unitarian Association minister at large, devoting himself to city mission work, establishing a ministry-at-large, now known as the Unitarian Universalist Urban Ministry, with the dual focus of empowering Boston’s most underprivileged citizens and transforming the spiritual consciousness of its most privileged residents.

[3] “To the system inaugurated by him,” said Edward Everett Hale, “Boston owes it that in every revulsion of business, or in any great calamity, her ordinary institutions of charitable relief have proved sufficient for whatever exigency.” In France his principles were adopted by Baron de Gérando.

He visited England in 1833 and formed friendships with Lady Byron, Joanna Baillie, and others, with whom he maintained a constant correspondence.