Alexander J. M. Tuck

In the early 1920s, Tuck represented "American manufacturing interests abroad" and was conducting his business on the Place Vendôme in Paris.^[10] He served as a director of the American Machine and Foundry Company for many years.^[12] In 1941, he retired as a special partner in stock exchange firm of Cohu & Torrey.^[14][15][16]

During World War II, he volunteered with the U.S. Air Force as an intelligence officer and served as a Captain from 1942 to 1945 in Italy.^[12]

Tuck was married four times during his lifetime. His first marriage was to Eugenie Ambrose (née Philbin) Wetmore (1893–1931) at City Hall in the 16th arrondissement of Paris. Eugenie, the former wife of writer Louis H. Wetmore,^[17] was a daughter of Judge Eugene A. Philbin and Jessie Marie (née Holladay) Philbin, in 1923.^[10] During their marriage, they lived in Paris before moving to New York City where they lived at 1125 Park Avenue. Before her death, they were the parents of:

• Eugénie Marshall Tuck (1924–2017), a debutante^[18][19] who married John Remington Northrop (1920–1944), in 1943.^[20] After he was killed in action over France during World War II, she married Lyman Beeman, Jr. of Glen Falls, New York in 1947.^[21]
• Alexandra Somerville Tuck (1926–1993), who married Philip Cornelius Walsh (1921–2010) of Lima, Peru in 1945.^[22]
• John Marshall Tuck (1928–1983)^[23]

His wife died at Saranac Lake on May 26, 1931.^[24]

After her death, he married Margaret (née Screven) White (1903–1964) at the summer home of her aunt, Mrs. H. Snowden Marshall (wife of Tuck's uncle, H. Snowden Marshall), in Ridgefield, Connecticut in 1932. The bride's brother, Franklin B. Screven, was her attendant, and Tuck's best man was Rufus L. Patterson (founder of American Machine and Foundry). Margaret, a daughter of Franklin Buchanan Screven, was the former wife of Fitzhugh White of Savannah, Georgia.^[25] A few hours after obtaining a divorce in Reno, Nevada from Tuck, Margaret married diplomat Angier Biddle Duke in November 1940.^[26]

In 1942, while living in Tuxedo Park, New York, Tuck married Princess Donna Christiana (née Torlonia) Lord at the home of the bride's uncle and aunt at 25 Sutton Place, in 1942. At the wedding her sister, Princess Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi (wife of Francis Xavier Shields), was her only attendant and Tuck's best man was Monroe Robinson (son of Corinne Roosevelt Robinson and nephew of President Theodore Roosevelt).^[13] Donna Christiana, the former wife of Daniel Lord, was a daughter of Marino Torlonia, 4th Prince of Civitella-Cesi and the American heiress Mary Elsie Moore.^[13] Among her siblings were Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi (who married Infanta Beatriz of Spain, daughter of King Alfonso XIII of Spain). They divorced in September 1945.^[27]

In 1946, Tuck married Edith Eleanor (née Holt) Richmond (1898–1982) at Christ Church Chapel in New York. Edith, the widow of Lawrence E. Richmond,^[27] was a daughter of Frank A. Holt and Anna (née Reynolds) Holt of Pasadena, California.^[28] The lived at 812 Park Avenue,^[21] before moving to Geneva in 1948 where they lived until his death and where Tuck was a president of the American Club and senior warden in the American Church.^[12]

Tuck died in Geneva, Switzerland on March 18, 1955.^[12] After his death, his widow married Charles Farwell Winston (a grandson of diplomat Frederick Hampden Winston).