Thomas Albert Wofford (September 27, 1908 – February 25, 1978) was a United States senator from South Carolina.

Born in Madden Station, Laurens County, South Carolina, he attended the public schools and graduated from the University of South Carolina at Columbia in 1928, and from Harvard University Law School in 1931.

In 1947, Wofford defended the 31 white men charged with the Lynching of Willie Earle in Greenville, South Carolina.

[3] The trial was highly publicized, and resulted in all of the defendants being acquitted of murder despite many of them having signed confessions.

Wofford was appointed on April 5, 1956, as a Democrat to the US Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Strom Thurmond and served from April 5, 1956, to November 6, 1956; he was not a candidate for election to fill the vacancy, and engaged in the practice of law.