Wilson NESBITT, Congress, SC (1861)

NESBITT, Wilson, a Representative from South Carolina; birth date unknown; resided in Spartanburg, Spartanburg County, S.C.; attended the common schools and was a student at South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia, 1805 and 1806; engaged in agricultural pursuits and conducted an iron foundry; justice of quorum of Spartanburg County, 1810; member of the State house of representatives, 1810-1814; elected as a Republican to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1819); moved to Alabama; died in Montgomery, Ala., May 13, 1861; interment in Oakwood Cemetery.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present