Thomas D. Singleton

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{other people|Thomas Singleton}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Thomas Day Singleton

| image name =

| birth_date = unknown

| birth_place = Kingstree, South Carolina

|death_date = November 25, 1833

|death_place = Raleigh, North Carolina

|resting_place = Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

|state1 = South Carolina

|district1 = 3rd

|term_start1 = March 4, 1833

|term_end1 = November 25, 1833

|predecessor1 = Thomas R. Mitchell

|successor1 = Robert B. Campbell

|office2 = Member of the South Carolina House of Representatives

|term2 = 1826-1833

| party = Nullifier

}}

Thomas Day Singleton (Birth date unknown – November 25, 1833) was a slaveowner{{Cite web |last=Weil |first=Julie Zauzmer |last2=Blanco |first2=Adrian |last3=Dominguez |first3=Leo |title=More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/ |access-date=2023-02-20 |website=Washington Post |language=en}} and United States representative from South Carolina. He was born near Kingstree, South Carolina but his birth date is unknown.

Singleton was a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, 1826-1833. He was elected as a Nullifier to the Twenty-third Congress and served without having qualified, from March 3, 1833, until his death in Raleigh, North Carolina, November 25, 1833, while en route to Washington, D.C. He was buried in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

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