Nathaniel Beverley Tucker (June 8, 1820 – July 4, 1890) was an American journalist, printer, and diplomat. During the American Civil War he was a Confederate States (Southern) economic agent in France, England, and Canada, and also a secret representative in the North.
The Confederate government sent him to the United Kingdom and France in 1862, and to Canada in 1863–64, to arrange the trade of cotton for food.[3] He also made some secret diplomatic representations to Northern men of influence. During the War he was on the Union "Wanted List", and in its aftermath he was charged as a conspirator in the successful 1865 plot to assassinate Abraham Lincoln. Although he was never arrested, he was never pardoned either.[4]
After the War he went to Mexico, and remained there until the reign of Maximilian I of Mexico (not recognized by the U.S.) came to an end in June 1867, when he returned to Canada.[5] Upon returning to the United States in 1869, he resided in Washington, D.C., and Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.[6] In 1890 he died in Richmond, Virginia.