Thomas Clark Nicholls (1790-1847) was a Louisiana jurist and temperance crusader in the 1830s and 1840s. Nicholls died almost three decades before his son, Francis T. Nicholls, was first elected governor in 1876. Thomas Nicholls was probably born in Maryland to Edward C. Nicholls and the former Williamina Hamilton. He relocated to Louisiana in 1805 and read law in the office of his brother-in-law, Nathan Morse. Wikipedia
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