William T. Nuckolls

William Thompson Nuckolls (* February 23, 1801 at Hancock Ville, Union County, South Carolina, † September 27, 1855 ) was an American politician. Between 1827 and 1833 he represented the state of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Nuckolls studied until 1820 at the South Carolina College in Columbia, which later became the University of South Carolina. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1823 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Spartanburg.

Politically, Nuckolls joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and was then a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. In 1826 he was in the seventh constituency of South Carolina in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Gist on March 4, 1827. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1833 three legislative periods. These were overshadowed by the debate about the politics of the office since 1829 President Jackson. It came between South Carolina and the federal government to so-called Nullifikationskrise. Even the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act was the subject of lively debate in Congress.

After his time in the House of Representatives, William Nuckolls withdrew from politics. He died on September 27, 1855 on his plantation in Hancock Ville.