Jonathan Nichols Jr. (October 24, 1712 – September 8, 1756)^[1] was an American politician. He served as deputy governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. He was the son of former Deputy Governor Jonathan Nichols Sr. and Elizabeth Lawton.^[1] Nichols became Deputy Governor in November 1753 when his predecessor, Joseph Whipple III, resigned amid the collapse of his personal fortune, and Nichols completed his term. In 1755, Nichols was again selected as Deputy Governor, completing his first one-year term, then dying during his second year in office.

Nichols is credited with building a house in Newport in 1748, later known as the Hunter House. Following his death, the house was owned by Deputy Governor Joseph Wanton Jr., a loyalist, and following the American Revolutionary War was owned by William Hunter, a United States Senator, and ambassador to Brazil.

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  "Hunter House" first occupied by Nichols
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  Nichols' grave marker, Nichols-Hassard Cemetery, Portsmouth

The ancestry of Jonathan Nichols Jr. is found in Austin's Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island.^[1]

• List of lieutenant governors of Rhode Island
• List of colonial governors of Rhode Island
• Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

• Austin, John Osborne (1887). Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island. Albany, New York: J. Munsell's Sons. ISBN 978-0-8063-0006-1.

• Bicknell, Thomas Williams (1920). The History of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Vol. 3. New York: The American Historical Society. Retrieved March 30, 2011.

• Hunter House article
• State list of lieutenant governors of Rhode Island