Benjamin Tucker

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (April 17, 1854 – June 22, 1939) was a proponent, in the 19th century, of American individualist anarchism, which he called "unterrified Jeffersonianism," and editor and publisher of the individualist anarchist periodical Liberty.

Early life and influences

Tucker was born on April 17, 1854, in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts. In 1872, while a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tucker attended a convention of the New England Labor Reform League in Boston, chaired by William B. Greene, author of Mutual Banking (1850). At the convention, Tucker purchased Mutual Banking, Josiah Warren's True Civilization (1869), and a set of free-love anarchist Ezra Heywood's pamphlets. Afterwards, Heywood introduced Tucker to Greene and Warren. All three men would have a serious influence on Tucker's philosophical development. He also started a romantic correspondence with suffragette Victoria Woodhull around the same time, a relationship which lasted for three years.

Roy A. Tucker

Roy A. Tucker (born 1951 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American astronomer. He is a prolific discoverer of asteroids, identifying at least 668 and co-discovering two, between 1996 and 2009.

Tucker was raised in Memphis, Tennessee. In 1966, he became a member of Memphis Astronomical Society and received a Master's degree in Scientific Instrumentation from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He works as a senior engineer in the Imaging Technology Laboratory of the University of Arizona.

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