Tilghman Mayfield Tucker (February 5, 1802 – April 3, 1859) was Governor of Mississippi from 1842 to 1844.

Tucker was born in North Carolina near Lime Stone Springs, and lived in Alabama for a time before moving to Mississippi.

During Tucker's two-year term (1842–1844), the Democratic Party remained divided over the bond issue.

[3] He then retired from public life and moved to his Louisiana plantation home named Cottonwood.

While visiting his father near Bexar in Marion County, Alabama, Tucker died on April 3, 1859.