William T. Nuckolls Explained

William Thompson Nuckolls
Birth Date:23 February 1801
Birth Place:Union County, South Carolina
State:South Carolina
District:7th
Term Start:March 4, 1827
Term End:March 3, 1833
Predecessor:Joseph Gist
Successor:William K. Clowney
Party:Jacksonian
Profession:lawyer, planter
Alma Mater:South Carolina College

William Thompson Nuckolls (February 23, 1801 – September 27, 1855) was a U.S. Representative from South Carolina.

Born near Hancockville, Union (now Cherokee) County, South Carolina, Nuckolls graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1820.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced practice in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Nuckolls was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Congresses (March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1833).He died on his plantation near Hancockville, South Carolina, on September 27, 1855.He was interred in Whig Hill Cemetery.