Walter Adam Tucker QC (11 March 1899 – 19 September 1990)[1] was a Canadian politician.
[2] He won a seat in the House of Commons of Canada where he was a Liberal MP for Rosthern, Saskatchewan from 1935 until 1948.
[2] He moved to provincial politics to lead the Saskatchewan Liberal Party in the 1948 provincial election against the CCF government of Tommy Douglas promoting the Liberals as the defenders of capitalism against the socialist CCF.
While Tucker was able to win a seat in the provincial legislature and become Leader of the Opposition, he failed in his attempts to defeat the CCF government in 1948 and then again in 1952.
[1][2] In 1963, he was appointed to the Court of Queen's Bench for Saskatchewan where he served as a judge until 1974.