Abraham Nott

Abraham Nott ( born February 5, 1768 in Saybrook, Middlesex County, Connecticut, † June 19, 1830 in Fairfield, South Carolina ) was an American politician. Between 1799 and 1801 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Abraham Nott enjoyed a private education in his youth. Then he studied until 1787 at Yale College. In 1788 he moved to the McIntosh County in Georgia. There he worked for a year as a teacher before he moved to Camden in South Carolina in 1789. After studying law and its made ​​in 1791 admitted to the bar he began in Union to work in his new profession.

Politically Nott was a member of the Federalist Party, founded by Alexander Hamilton. From 1796 to 1797 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. In 1798 he was selected in the sixth constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of William Smith on March 4, 1799. But until March 3, 1801, he completed only one term in Congress, into its new home in the newly established at this time federal capital, Washington DC involved.

After his time in the House of Representatives Abraham Nott worked as a lawyer in Columbia. In 1805 he was curator of the University of South Carolina. In 1807 he was artistic director and thus de facto mayor of the city of Columbia. Since 1810 Nott Judge at the South Carolina Circuit Court was a position he held until his death. Since 1824 he was also Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of South Carolina. Abraham Nott died on June 19, 1830 in Fairfield. He was in Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, buried. His son Josiah C. Nott (1804-1873) was a physician and race theorist.