About Thomas J. Reynolds
Lived 1854 – 1896 (aged 41–42). Thomas J. Reynolds was an American politician.
Thomas John Reynolds (1854–1896) was a lawyer and legislator who served in the South Carolina Senate post Reconstruction.
Reynolds was born March 28, 1854, as a slave. He was from Saint Helena Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina. He was then elected for a second term in 1886, He served as a Republican. In 1896 he was an alternate delegate to Republican National Convention representing South Carolina. with blacks being disenfranchised by the 1895 constitution and then a more than a ninety-year gap until the election of I. DeQuincey Newman in 1983.
He studied to be a lawyer and was admitted to the bar by the South Carolina Supreme Court December 1885. He worked in a law firm with William James Whipper.
He died sometime in 1896.
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South Carolina American politician
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Thomas J. Reynolds was born on 28 March 1854 in Saint Helena Island.
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Thomas J. Reynolds died in 1896.
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Thomas J. Reynolds was a politician.
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Thomas J. Reynolds was American.
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