Given the question: Facts: - profession: lawyer - death place: union , south carolina - term: 1802 -- 1817 - successor: william t. nuckolls john carter - party: jacksonian -lrb- after 1825 -rrb- - death date: 12 march 1851 - predecessor: john wilson john mccreary - office: member of the south carolina house of representatives - otherparty: democratic-republican -lrb- until 1825 -rrb- - district: 7th 8th - term end: march 3 , 1827 march 3 , 1823 - dead: death - birth date: 21 march 1797 - state: south carolina south carolina - name: joseph gist - term start: march 4 , 1823 march 4 , 1821 - birth place: pinckney district , south carolina Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of joseph gist .
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joseph gist -lrb- january 12 , 1775 -- march 8 , 1836 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from south carolina .born near the mouth of fair forest creek , union district , 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 to the seventeenth congress , re-elected as a jackson republican to the eighteenth congress , and elected as a jacksonian to the nineteenth congress -lrb- march 4 , 1821 -- march 3 , 1827 -rrb- .he was not a candidate for renomination .he resumed the practice of law .he died in pinckneyville , on march 8 , 1836 .he was interred in the family burial ground .