Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (journalist)

Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (June 8, 1820 – July 4, 1890) was an American journalist, printer, and diplomat.

During the American Civil War he was a Confederate States (Southern) economic agent in France, England, and Canada, and also a secret representative in the North.

In December 1853 he was elected printer to the United States Senate, and in 1857 he was appointed consul to Liverpool, England, where he remained until 1861.

The Confederate government sent him to the United Kingdom and France in 1862, and to Canada in 1863–64, to arrange the trade of cotton for food.

During the War he was on the Union "Wanted List", and in its aftermath he was charged as a conspirator in the successful 1865 plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln.