Robert Rice Reynolds was a U.S. Senator (D-NC) from 1932 to 1945, and notorious as an apologist for Nazi aggression in Europe. He edited an isolationist newspaper, The Vindicator, from this address (also his home), and was part owner of another newspaper, the anti-Semitic The Defender. Reynolds published a memoir, Gypsy Trails: Around the World in an Automobile (1923).
Reynolds married five times, once to a 17-year-old,and once to a former Zeigfeld Follies dancer. His final marriage to Evalyn Washington McLean, daughter of Edward McLean (former owner of the Washington Post) and Evalyn Walsh McLean (owner of the Hope Diamond) ended in tragedy; she died of an overdose of sleeping pills.
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