# Joseph Gist

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{{Short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Joseph Gist
|image        = 
|birth_date   = {{birth date|1775|1|12}}
|birth_place  = [Union District](/source/Union_County%2C_South_Carolina), [Province of South Carolina](/source/Province_of_South_Carolina), [British America](/source/British_America)
|death_date   = {{death date and age|1836|3|8|1775|1|12}}
|death_place  = [Pinckneyville](/source/Pinckneyville_(Union%2C_South_Carolina)), [South Carolina](/source/South_Carolina), U.S.
|office       = Member of the [U.S. House of Representatives](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives) from South Carolina
|term_start   = March 4, 1821
|term_end     = March 4, 1827
|predecessor  = [John McCreary](/source/John_McCreary) (8th)<br/>[John Wilson](/source/John_Wilson_(South_Carolina)) (7th)
|successor    = [John Carter](/source/John_Carter_(South_Carolina)) (8th)<br/>[William T. Nuckolls](/source/William_T._Nuckolls) (7th)
|constituency = {{ushr|SC|8|8th district}} (1821-23)<br/>{{ushr|SC|7|7th district}} (1823-27)
|office3      = Member of the [South Carolina House of Representatives](/source/South_Carolina_House_of_Representatives)
|term3        = 1802–1817
|party        = [Jacksonian](/source/Jacksonian_Party_(United_States)) (after 1825)
|other_party  = [Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican_Party_(United_States)) (until 1825)
|profession   = [lawyer](/source/lawyer)
}}
'''Joseph Gist''' (January 12, 1775{{spnd}}March 8, 1836) was a [U.S. representative](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives) from [South Carolina](/source/South_Carolina).

Born near the mouth of Fair Forest Creek in the [Union District](/source/Union_County%2C_South_Carolina) of the [Province of South Carolina](/source/Province_of_South_Carolina). Gist moved to Charleston with his parents in 1788. He attended the common schools. He graduated from the College of Charleston. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1799, and began practice in Pinckneyville, South Carolina, in 1800. He served as member of the State house of representatives from 1802 to 1817. He served as member of the board of trustees of South Carolina College at Columbia 1809–1821.

Gist was elected as a [Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican_Party_(United_States)) to the Seventeenth Congress, re-elected as a Jackson Democratic-Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and elected as a [Jacksonian](/source/Jacksonian_Democrats) to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1827).
He was not a candidate for renomination.
He resumed the practice of law.
He died in [Pinckneyville](/source/Pinckneyville_(Union%2C_South_Carolina)), on March 8, 1836.
He was interred in the family burial ground.

==Sources==
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{{US House succession box
| state=South Carolina
| district=8
| before= [John McCreary](/source/John_McCreary)
| after= [John Carter](/source/John_Carter_(South_Carolina))
| years=1821–1823
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{{US House succession box
| state=South Carolina
| district=7
| before= [John Wilson](/source/John_Wilson_(South_Carolina))
| after= [William T. Nuckolls](/source/William_T._Nuckolls)
| years= 1823–1827
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Category:Democratic-Republican Party United States representatives from South Carolina
Category:Jacksonian United States representatives from South Carolina
Category:19th-century United States representatives
Category:19th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly
Category:South Carolina lawyers

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