Walter R. Tucker III

Walter Rayford Tucker III ( born May 28, 1957 in Compton, California) is an American politician. Between 1993 and 1995 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walter Tucker comes from a well-known local political family. His father was a former mayor of Compton. Between 1974 and 1976 he studied at Princeton University and from then until 1978 at the University of Southern California. After a subsequent law degree from Georgetown University and his 1984 was admitted to the bar he began in Compton to work in this profession. From 1984 to 1986 he was also deputy district attorney in Los Angeles County. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. In 1991 and 1992 he was mayor of his hometown of Compton. He was also active as an ordained minister in the ecclesiastical field.

In the congressional elections of 1992, Tucker was the 37th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Al McCandless on January 3, 1993. After a re-election, he could remain in Congress until his resignation in December 1995. There he was a member of the Committee on Public Works and the Small Business Committee. In 1995 corruption charges against him were loud, which dated back from his time as mayor of Compton. In this context, he laid on 15 December 1995 resigned his parliamentary seat. In 1996, he was sentenced to 27 months in prison.