[4] Tuck went to boarding school in Switzerland, Germany and the United States before attending Dartmouth College, where he was known as a bon vivant, and graduated with the class of 1913.

[8][9] After leaving that post, Tuck became the last envoy and first United States Ambassador to Egypt being appointed by President Roosevelt on May 4, 1944.

[9] Upon the legation being raised to Embassy status, he was appointed the first Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Egypt on September 19, 1946, presenting his credentials on October 10, 1946,[a] serving until he left his post on May 30, 1948.

[12][13] In October 1924, Tuck was married to Beatrice Mitchell Beck in Washington, D.C., at St. Thomas's Church in Dupont Circle in a ceremony attended by President and Mrs. Calvin Coolidge.

[14] Beatrice, later a friend of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, was a daughter of former U.S. Representative James M. Beck, who was at the time President Coolidge's Solicitor General.

John Francis Amherst Cecil (the first secretary of the British Embassy in Washington), at whose wedding to Cornelia Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Tuck had been an usher four months earlier; also Raymond Cox, Donald Rodgers, Cmmdr.