James Joseph Reynolds (April 24, 1874 – May 26, 1945) was a teacher, educator, and assistant superintendent of schools in New York City.
[1] To put himself through law school, Reynolds taught in the evenings after his own classes were finished, and as a result, became interested in education.
He then was appointed as a district superintendent successively in Staten Island and Flatbush (Brooklyn), and later was made an assistant superintendent of schools in Bushwick (Brooklyn), a position he held until he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70 in 1944.
Upon his return from both those trips, he warned that officials in those countries were planning programs of hate toward the United States.
[4] Reynolds died of a heart attack at his home in Brooklyn, and was buried in nearby Holy Cross Cemetery.