He served as the president of Paine College in Augusta, Georgia, from 1921 to 1923 (as interim) and from 1923 until 1929.
Born on October 10, 1899, in Phoenix, Arizona Territory,[1][2] and he moved with his family to a farm in Missouri.
Tomlin received a Bachelor of Divinity[3] from the Garrett Bible Institute and a Master's degree from Northwestern University.
Tomlin – a White college president – believed that the school would be best served by hiring a Black faculty,[7] which was not a popular position in Augusta, Georgia in the 1920s.
He was never bitter and spent the rest of his life ministering to the small farm communities in central Missouri.