Powell Smythe was a member of the South Carolina General Assembly during the Reconstruction era.

[3] He supported Franklin J. Moses Jr. having his "disabilities" removed in 1868 after the American Civil War.

[4] An 1873 report showed him receiving 350 votes for a state representative seat.

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

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