Tucker served as president of The Virginia Bar Association in 1891-1892, and president of the American Bar Association in 1894. John Randolph Tucker died in 1897 in Lexington, Virginia and is buried in the family plot at Mt. Hebron cemetery in Winchester. His widow would join him in 1916. One of his sons, Henry St. George Tucker, III, would follow in his footsteps by becoming Dean of the Washington and Lee Law School, and later a U.S. Congressman representing Winchester (1922-1932). J.R.Tucker's two volume treatise, "The Constitution of the United States", appeared posthumously in 1899. His Lexington home, Blandome was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.