Samuel J. Nicholls

Samuel Jones Nicholls ( born May 7, 1885 in Spartanburg, South Carolina, † November 23, 1937 ) was an American politician. Between 1915 and 1921 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Nicholls visited the Bingham Military Institute in Asheville (North Carolina) and then the Wofford College in Spartanburg. He also studied at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Chicago and its made ​​in 1906 admitted to the bar he began in Spartanburg to work in his new profession.

Nicholls was attorney for the city Spartanburg and in 1907 District Attorney in Spartanburg County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1907 and 1908 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from South Carolina. At that time he was also appointed temporarily as a judge on the state Supreme Court. Nicholls was also captain of the National Guard of South Carolina.

Following the resignation of Congressman Joseph T. Johnson Nicholls was at the by-election in the fourth constituency of South Carolina as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on September 14, 1915 at its new mandate. After he was in 1916 and 1918 respectively confirmed at the regular congressional elections the years, he could remain until March 3, 1921 Congress. In this time of the First World War fell. At that time the 18th and the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in Congress were agreed and adopted. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage. In 1916 Nicholls hit the headlines when he delivered a fight with the deputies Frederick R. Lehlbach from New Jersey. It was about the different evaluation of the film " Birth of a Nation ". Nicholls was also a member of the Military Committee and lobbied for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.

In 1920 Nicholls declined to further candidacy for Congress. For the rest of his life he worked at a Law Firm in Spartanburg, who was also James F. Byrnes. Samuel Nicholls died on November 23, 1937 in Spartanburg.