Jim Tucker

Who is Jim Tucker?

James Wayne Tucker, known as Jim Tucker was the Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives, and an ally of Governor Bobby Jindal. An investment banker from the Terrytown section of the New Orleans metropolitan area, Tucker's District 86 includes precincts from both Jefferson and Orleans parishes. He has held the House seat since his victory in a special election on March 17, 2001. The vastly reconfigured district in 2012 will include only Tangipahoa Parish.

In the primary election held on October 22, 2011, Tucker was narrowly defeated in the race for Louisiana Secretary of State by the incumbent, fellow Republican Tom Schedler, a former state senator from St. Tammany Parish. Tucker carried thirty-eight of the sixty-four parishes, including all in north Louisiana, but lost to Schedler by some 9,000 votes, 440,872 to 449,370.