Thaddeus Kenlock Sasportas was a state legislator in South Carolina during the Reconstruction era.[1] He represented Chester County, South Carolina in the South Carolina House of Representatives. A document describes him as a slave before the American Civil War, as being a Baptist minister, and as Black.[2]
Born in Charleston, he was educated in Philadelphia.[3] He served as Orangeburg County treasurer.[4]
In 1876, he proposed splitting the millage funding schools evenly between white and "colored" schools as a compromise agreement. A newspaper notice of the offer noted that the preponderance of students were African American.[5] He was declared bankrupt and his property and cotton gin were put up for auction in 1879.[6]