Samuel J. Nicholls

Samuel J. Nicholls

Samuel Jones Nicholls (born May 7, 1885 in Spartanburg , South Carolina , †  November 23, 1937 there ) was an American politician . Between 1915 and 1921 he represented the state of South Carolina in the US 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 the Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg . After a subsequent law degree at the University of Chicago and his admission as a lawyer in 1906, he began to work in Spartanburg in his new profession.

Nicholls was an attorney for the city of Spartanburg and from 1907 district attorney in Spartanburg County . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Party . He was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives in 1907 and 1908 . At that time, he was also temporarily appointed judge of the state's Supreme Court. Nicholls was also a captain in the South Carolina National Guard.

After the resignation of Congressman Joseph T. Johnson , Nicholls was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election in the fourth constituency of South Carolina . There he took up his new mandate on September 14, 1915. After he was confirmed in the regular congressional elections in 1916 and 1918, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1921 . During this time the First World War fell . At that time, the 18th and 19th amendments to the constitution were passed and passed in Congress. It was about the ban on the trade in alcoholic beverages and the nationwide introduction of women's suffrage . In 1916, Nicholls got into the headlines when he became the deputy Frederick R. Lehlbach from New Jersey delivered a brawl. It was about the different evaluations of the film " Birth of a Nation ". Nicholls was also a member of the military committee and campaigned for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine.

In 1920, Nicholls turned down another candidacy for Congress. For the rest of his life he worked in a joint law firm in Spartanburg that also included James F. Byrnes . Samuel Nicholls died in Spartanburg on November 23, 1937.

Web links

• Samuel J. Nicholls in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel J. Nicholls in the database of Find a Grave (English)