Born in 1872 in Pleasanton, KS, Dr. Walter Leon Tucker was an author, editor, publisher, evangelist, lecturer, professor, hymnist and pastor.

Tucker studied at Bible Training School (Kansas City) and Moody Bible Institute (Chicago), and served on the faculty of the Los Angeles Bible Institute (1910-1913).

He pastored in Belton, Mount Pleasant and Kansas City, MO at First Baptist Church of Riverside, CA, and Calvary Church in Los Angeles. He was editor of Serial Bible Course magazine (later renamed Wonderful Word), president of Tucker-Hadden Union Bible Classes and Correspondence Course, and publisher of Wonderful Word Publishing (a.k.a. The Book Stall (Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY).

Among his associates were D. Paul Rader, Louis Talbot, Robert A. Hadden, James M. Gray, Lewis Sperry Chafer, W.H. Griffith-Thomas and Harry Rimmer. His ministry was known for its strong dispensational teaching (early Acts) and emphasis on the believer’s identification with Christ.