Wilson Nesbitt

Wilson T. Nesbitt was an American politician from South Carolina who served in the United States House of Representatives from 1817 to 1819.
Born in 1781, Nesbitt resided in Spartanburg, South Carolina where he attended its common schools. Later, he was a student at South Carolina College 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 and was buried in Oakwood Cemetery.