Retirement and Legacy
Tuck died in Exeter, New Hampshire, on December 11, 1879. He was interred in Exeter Cemetery.
His son, Edward Tuck, financed and founded at Dartmouth College the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, as well as the Tuck Historical Building, a beautiful granite structure in Concord, New Hampshire, home of the New Hampshire Historical Society and its Tuck Library.
Family and political descendants founded the Amos Tuck Society to promote and spread the history of Tucks contributions and founding of the Republican Party.
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