John Nichols (February 2, 1745 - November 26, 1826) was an English printer and author.
John Nichols (14 November 1834 - September 22, 1917) was a U.S. Congressman from the state of North Carolina between 1887 and 1889.
Nichols was born near Eagle Rock in Wake County, North Carolina. After attending the common schools and working for six years in the printing trade, Nichols, at the age of twenty-one, attended Lovejoy Academy in Raleigh for one year, after which he engaged in the book and job printing business and newspaper publishing.
In 1873, Nichols became principal of the North Carolina Institute for the Deaf and Dumb and the Blind, holding that post until 1877. He was a revenue-stamp agent in Durham from 1879 to 1881, Raleigh postmaster from 1881 to 1885, and then secretary and treasurer of the State Fair association.
In 1886, Nichols was elected as an Independent to the 50th United States Congress; he was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1888 and so only served one term of two years (March 4, 1887 - March 3, 1889). On July 22, 1889, he was appointed chief of the division of mail and files, Treasury Department. He transferred to become a private secretary to the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury on April 1, 1893, and resigned on June 30, 1893.
John Nichols returned to Raleigh, and served in the office of the collector of internal revenue from November 26 to December 17, 1893. He was later appointed United States commissioner for the eastern district of North Carolina on July 1, 1897, and served until his death in Raleigh in 1917. He is buried in Raleigh's Oakwood Cemetery.
John Treadwell Nichols (born July 23, 1940 Berkeley, California) is the author of the New Mexico trilogy, a series about the complex relationship between history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional Chamisaville County, New Mexico. The trilogy consists of The Milagro Beanfield War (which became a movie by Robert Redford), The Magic Journey, and The Nirvana Blues.
Two of his other novels have been made into films. The Wizard of Loneliness was published in 1966 and the film version with Lukas Haas was made in 1988. Another successful movie adaptation was of The Sterile Cuckoo, which was published in 1965 and was filmed by Alan J. Pakula in 1969.
Nichols has also written non-fiction, including the trilogy If Mountains Die, The Last Beautiful Days of Autumn and On the Mesa. John Nichols has lived in Taos, New Mexico for many years.
John Ernest Nichols (20 April 1878 - 29 February 1952) was an English cricketer who played five first-class games for Worcestershire between 1902 and 1904, as well as making one first-class appearance for Minor Counties in 1912. He had little success in any of these matches.
Nichols also played for Norfolk and Staffordshire in the Minor Counties Championship, playing into his fifties for Norfolk. In 1927 he returned an analysis of 12.2-6-14-7 for Norfolk against Leicestershire Second XI.
He stood in one match as an umpire: that between Minor Counties and the South Africans at Lakenham in 1924.
Nichols was born in Acle, Norfolk; he died at the age of 73 in Thorpe, also in Norfolk.
