Born in Abbeville District Present Day Mccormick County, South Carolina, near Willington, Noble was educated at Moses Waddel's School and he graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1806.

The General Assembly elected Noble as the 34th Lieutenant Governor of South Carolina in 1830 for a two-year term.

He was elected again to the House of Representatives upon the completion of his term as Lieutenant Governor in 1832 and he was elevated to the South Carolina Senate in 1836.

[1] His term as governor was marked by the aftermath effects of the Panic of 1837, resulting in the Charleston banks suspending specie payments.

They had seven children, of whom Edward (1820-1889), a lawyer, state representative, and major in the Confederate Army, was probably the most prominent.