Thomas John Reynolds (1854-1896) was a lawyer and legislator who served in the South Carolina Senate post Reconstruction.
[3] Educated first in the local schools of Saint Helena Island then in Atlanta College he then attended the University of South Carolina but it closed in 1877 before he obtained a degree.
[5] He was one of the last African Americans to serve in the South Carolina Senate in the post Reconstruction era[6] with blacks being disenfranchised by the 1895 constitution and then a more than a ninety year gap until the election of I. DeQuincey Newman in 1983.
[1] He studied to be a lawyer and was admitted to the bar by the South Carolina Supreme Court December 1885.
[3] In 1891 Reynolds was convicted of defrauding pensioners by charging illegal fees and keeping a portion of their monies.