{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Wilson T. Nesbitt |state1 = South Carolina |district1 = 8th |term_start1 = March 4, 1817 |term_end1 = March 3, 1819 |predecessor1 = Thomas Moore |successor1 = John McCreary |office2 = Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives |term2 = 1810–1814 |party = Democratic-Republican | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date text|1781}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{death date and age|1861|5|13|1781}} | death_place = Montgomery, Alabama | resting_place = |occupation = politician, farmer }}
'''Wilson T. Nesbitt''' (1781{{spnd}}May 13, 1861)<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=6LgBAAAAMAAJ&dq Some South Carolina County Records, Volume 1]</ref> was an American politician from South Carolina who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1817 to 1819.
Born in 1781 (his exact date of birth is unknown), Nesbitt resided in Spartanburg, South Carolina where he attended its common schools. Later, he was a student at South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia, South Carolina in 1805 and 1806. He engaged in agricultural pursuits and conducted an iron foundry.
Nesbitt was a justice of quorum of Spartanburg County, South Carolina in 1810. He served as a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives from 1810 to 1814. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 15th United States Congress, serving from March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1819. After leaving Congress, he moved to Alabama. He died in Montgomery, Alabama in 1861 (shortly after Alabama seceded from the Union and joined the Confederate States of America) and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery.<ref name=harrison>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JrXYvgrwkM0C&pg=PA1899 |page=1611 |title=Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949: The Continental Congress, September 5, 1774, to October 21, 1788, and the Congress of the United States from the First to the Eightieth Congress, March 4, 1789 to January 3, 1949 |editor1-first=James L. |editor1-last=Harrison |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |year=1950}}</ref>
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Category:American ironmasters Category:Farmers from South Carolina Category:Democratic-Republican Party United States representatives from South Carolina Category:19th-century United States representatives Category:19th-century members of the South Carolina General Assembly