William Thompson Nuckolls (February 23, 1801 - September 27, 1855) was a U.S. Representative

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 from South Carolina

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Born near Hancockville, Union (now Cherokee) County, South Carolina, Nuckolls graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina

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) at Columbia in 1820.
He studied law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1823 and commenced practice in Spartanburg, South Carolina

Spartanburg, South Carolina

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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.

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