Robert Rice Reynolds

US senator, born in Weaverville, North Carolina, USA. A lawyer, he served in the US Senate (Democrat, North Carolina, 1932–45). As chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee and a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, he opposed the USA entering World War 2.

Robert Rice Reynolds (18 June 1884 - 13 February 1963) was a Democratic U.S. senator from the state of North Carolina between 1932 and 1945.

Originally from the town of Asheville, Reynolds was in close contact and sympathy with William Dudley Pelley's pro-Nazi Silver Legion of America.

As Senator, Reynolds sympathized with the German Nazi government and fought for the America First organization, a group that wanted the United States to avoid entering the war against Germany.

In 1938, Reynolds became chairman of the Senate Committee of Military Affairs.

In April 1940, Reynolds provided a Nazi agent, Simon Emil Koedel, with detailed confidential information about France’s ports.

By 1944, the Democratic Party had had enough of Reynolds and chose former governor Clyde R. Morrison

Senators from North Carolina	Succeeded by: Clyde Roark Hoey
Served alongside: Josiah William Bailey