Samuel Nuckles was an American legislator in South Carolina during the Reconstruction era.

A Republican, he gave testimony about a campaign of intimidation used by Democrats and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1870 election.

[1] In 1871 he was part of a delegation sent to Washington D.C. requesting federal troops to address "outrages".

He also testified that he was a refugee from Union County due to threats of violence and Ku Klux Klan attacks.

[3][4][5][6] His photograph was included in a montage of Radical Republican South Carolina legislators.