Thomas J. Reynolds
Thomas John Reynolds (1854-1896) was a lawyer and legislator who served in the South Carolina Senate post Reconstruction era, Reconstruction. Reynolds was born March 28, 1854 as a slave. He was from Saint Helena Island (South Carolina), Saint Helena Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina. 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. He was first elected to serve in the South Carolina Senate from 1884 until 1886 representing Beaufort County, South Carolina, Beaufort County. He was then elected for a second term in 1886, and served until 1888. He served as a Republican Party (United States), Republican. In 1896 he was an alternate delegate to Republican National Convention representing South Carolina. He was one of the last African Americans to serve in the South Carolina Senate in the post Reconstruction era with blacks being disenfranchised ...
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South Carolina Senate
The South Carolina Senate is the upper house of the South Carolina General Assembly, the lower house being the South Carolina House of Representatives. It consists of 46 senators elected from single member districts for four-year terms at the same time as United States presidential elections. The South Carolina Constitution of 1895 provided for each county to elect one senator for a four-year term. The election of senators was staggered so that half of the state Senate was elected every two years. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1964 for the case ''Reynolds v. Sims ''Reynolds v. Sims'', 377 U.S. 533 (1964), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that the electoral districts of state legislative chambers must be roughly equal in population. Along with '' Baker v. Carr'' (19 ...'', the state Senate was reapportioned in 1966 as a temporary measure into 27 districts with 50 members for two-year terms. In 1967, the state Senate was again rea ...
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