Stephen Friel Nuckolls

Stephen Friel Nuckolls ( born August 16, 1825 in Grayson County, Virginia; † February 14, 1879 in Salt Lake City, Utah ) was an American politician. Between 1869 and 1871 he represented the Wyoming Territory in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Early years

Stephen Nuckolls attended the public schools of his home. In 1846 he moved to Linden in Missouri. There he worked 1847-1853 in trade. In 1854 he moved to the Nebraska Territory, where he founded the city of Nebraska City, in which he exercised some local administrative offices. In 1855, he also founded the Platte Valley Bank. In 1859 Nuckolls was a deputy in the Territorial House of Representatives. In 1860 he moved to the Colorado Territory, where he engaged in mining and banking business. About a stopover in New York City came Nuckolls 1867 to Cheyenne, which was then still part of Dakota Territory. There he was again engaged in trade.

Political career

Stephen Nuckolls was a member of the Democratic Party. After the founding of the Wyoming Territory, he was elected in 1869 for the first delegates of this area in the U.S. Congress. This mandate he held between December 6, 1869 and March 3, 1871. But he had U.S. House of Representatives not to vote because Wyoming was not an official state of the United States. In the congressional elections of 1870 he was defeated by William Theopilus Jones, the candidate of the Republican Party. Then he went back to his private interests in Wyoming after, but remained attached to the policy. In the year 1871 he became a member and chairman of the territorial Government Council. In the years 1872 and 1876 was a delegate to the Democratic National Nuckolls conventions. In July 1872 he moved to Salt Lake City. There is also Stephen Nuckolls died in 1879.