Robert Rice Reynolds (June 18, 1884 – February 13, 1963) was an American politician who served as a Democratic US senator from North Carolina from 1932 to 1945.

Almost from the outset of his Senate career, "Our Bob," as he was known among his local supporters,[1] acquired distinction as a passionate isolationist and increasing notoriety as an apologist for Nazi aggression in Europe.

[3] Reynolds occasionally turned over his Senate office facilities to subversive propagandists and allowed them to use his franking to mail their literature postage-free.

[6] Reynolds was an advocate of "Fortress America" and supported a strong national defense, including an expansion of the United States Armed Forces.

[8][9] An advocate of immigration restriction, Reynolds spoke out against the Wagner–Rogers Bill that aimed to accept 20,000 Jewish refugee children into the United States from Nazi Germany.

[12][13] Unusually for a major American politician, Reynolds openly praised Nazi Germany and worked with fascist intellectuals such as Gerald L. K. Smith and George Sylvester Viereck.

He is distrusted by the majority of his colleagues and his assumption of the chairmanship of the Military Affairs Committee (by seniority) was universally regarded as disastrous outside his own circle of chauvinist demagogues.

His State produces cotton and tobacco and he, therefore, votes for reciprocal trade pacts.By 1944, the Democratic Party chose former Governor Clyde R. Hoey to seek Reynolds's seat in the primary.

Reynolds sought to return to the Senate in 1950,[16] but he was by then hopelessly discredited and won only 10% in the Democratic primary, behind Frank Porter Graham and Willis Smith.

He wrote the book Gypsy Trails, Around the World in an Automobile; Asheville, NC: Advocate Publishing Company (presumed date 1923).

Before their divorce in 1917 and her three subsequent marriages,[8] they had one daughter together:[5] In 1921, he married, for the third time, Denise D'Arcy, a French woman he met in New York.

[8] On February 27, 1931, he married for the fourth time to Eva Brady (1898–1934), a former Ziegfeld Follies dancer from Chicago,[5] who came to Asheville looking for a cure for tuberculosis.

[19] Together, they had one daughter:[20] On September 20, 1946, his wife, Evalyn, died of an accidental overdose of sleeping pills,[25] which some believe is a result of the Hope Diamond curse.