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Ku Klux Klan members in United States politics

Index Ku Klux Klan members in United States politics

This is a partial list of a few notable figures in U.S. national politics who were members of the Ku Klux Klan before taking office. [1]

69 relations: Alonzo Hamby, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Benjamin F. Stapleton, Bibb Graves, Chicago, Clarence Morley, Clifford Walker, Colorado, D. C. Stephenson, David Duke, David McCullough, Democratic Party (United States), Denver, E. R. Stephenson, Edmund Pettus, Edward Jacobson, Edward L. Jackson, Florence Harding, Freakonomics, George Gordon (Civil War general), Governor of Indiana, Grand Wizard, Harry S. Truman, Hugo Black, Jackson County, Missouri, James Coyle, John Brown Gordon, John Clinton Porter, John Dean, John Tyler Morgan, Kleagle, Ku Klux Klan, List of Governors of Alabama, List of Governors of Georgia, Los Angeles, Louisiana State Legislature, Lynching, Madge Oberholtzer, NAACP, Nadir of American race relations, National Governors Association, Oxford University Press, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Politics of the United States, Pulitzer Prize, Racism in United States politics, Ray Sprigle, Republican Party (United States), Rice W. Means, Robert Byrd, ..., Simon & Schuster, Spencer Salisbury, St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, Stetson Kennedy, Tennessee's 10th congressional district, The Colorado Independent, The Denver Post, The New York Times Magazine, The Straight Dope, The Washington Post, Tom Pendergast, Truman (book), United States Senate, University of Alabama Press, University of Missouri Press, Walter Mitty, Warren G. Harding, Warren T. McCray, Woodrow Wilson. Expand index (19 more) »

Alonzo Hamby

Alonzo L. Hamby (born 30 January 1940) is an American historian and academic.

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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States.

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Benjamin F. Stapleton

Benjamin Franklin Stapleton (November 12, 1869 – May 23, 1950) was the Mayor of Denver, Colorado, USA, for two periods (comprising five terms), the first from 1923 to 1931 and the second from 1935 to 1947.

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Bibb Graves

David Bibb Graves (April 1, 1873 – March 14, 1942) was an American Democratic politician and the 38th Governor of Alabama 1927-1931 and 1935–1939, the first Alabama governor to serve two four-year terms.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Clarence Morley

Clarence Joseph Morley (February 9, 1869 – November 15, 1948) was the 24th Governor of Colorado from 1925 to 1927, serving one two-year term.

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Clifford Walker

Clifford Mitchell Walker (July 4, 1877 – November 9, 1954) was an American attorney and politician from Georgia.

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Colorado

Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.

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D. C. Stephenson

David Curtiss "Steve" Stephenson (August 21, 1891 – June 28, 1966) was a convicted murderer and rapist, who in 1923 was appointed Grand Dragon (state leader) of the branch of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana and head of Klan recruiting for seven other states.

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David Duke

David Ernest Duke (born July 1, 1950) is an American white supremacist and white nationalist politician, antisemitic conspiracy theorist, Holocaust denier, convicted felon, and former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan.

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David McCullough

David Gaub McCullough (born July 7, 1933) is an American author, narrator, historian, and lecturer.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Denver

Denver, officially the City and County of Denver, is the capital and most populous municipality of the U.S. state of Colorado.

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E. R. Stephenson

Reverend Edwin Roscoe Stephenson (March 8, 1870 – August 4, 1956) was a minister of the now defunct Methodist Episcopal Church, South and a member of the Ku Klux Klan.

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Edmund Pettus

Edmund Pettus (born Edmund Winston Pettus; July 6, 1821 – July 27, 1907) was an American politician who represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1897 to 1907.

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Edward Jacobson

Edward "Eddie" Jacobson (June 17, 1891, New York City – October 25, 1955, Kansas City, Missouri) was a Jewish-American businessman.

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Edward L. Jackson

Edward L. "Ed" Jackson (December 27, 1873 – November 18, 1954) was an American attorney, judge and politician, elected the 32nd Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from January 12, 1925, to January 14, 1929.

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Florence Harding

Florence Mabel Harding (née Kling; August 15, 1860 – November 21, 1924) was the First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923 as the wife of President Warren G. Harding.

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Freakonomics

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything is the debut non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and New York Times journalist Stephen J. Dubner.

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George Gordon (Civil War general)

George Washington Gordon (October 5, 1836 – August 9, 1911) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

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Governor of Indiana

The Governor of Indiana is the chief executive of the state of Indiana.

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Grand Wizard

Grand Wizard was the title given to the head of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan which existed from 1865 to 1869.

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Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was an American statesman who served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953), taking office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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Hugo Black

Hugo Lafayette Black (February 27, 1886 – September 25, 1971) was an American politician and jurist who served in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1937, and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1937 to 1971.

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Jackson County, Missouri

Jackson County is a county located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri.

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James Coyle

James Edwin Coyle (March 23, 1873 – August 11, 1921) was a Roman Catholic priest who was murdered in Birmingham, Alabama.

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John Brown Gordon

John Brown Gordon (February 6, 1832January 9, 1904) was an attorney, a planter, general in the Confederate States Army, and politician in the postwar years.

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John Clinton Porter

John Clinton Porter (April 4, 1871 – May 27, 1959) was a U.S. political figure.

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John Dean

John Wesley Dean III (born October 14, 1938) is an investment banker, author, columnist, lecturer, and attorney who served as White House Counsel for United States President Richard Nixon from July 1970 until April 1973.

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John Tyler Morgan

John Tyler Morgan (June 20, 1824 – June 11, 1907) was a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, a six-term U.S. senator from the state of Alabama after the war.

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Kleagle

A Kleagle is an officer of the Ku Klux Klan whose main role is to recruit new members.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.

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List of Governors of Alabama

The Governor of Alabama is the chief executive of the U.S. state of Alabama.

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List of Governors of Georgia

The Governor of Georgia is the head of the executive branch of Georgia's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.

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Louisiana State Legislature

The Louisiana State Legislature (Législature d'État de Louisiane) is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Louisiana.

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Lynching

Lynching is a premeditated extrajudicial killing by a group.

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Madge Oberholtzer

Madge Augustine Oberholtzer (November 10, 1896 – April 14, 1925) was an American woman whose rape and murder played a critical role in the demise of the second incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan.

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NAACP

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is a civil rights organization in the United States, formed in 1909 as a bi-racial organization to advance justice for African Americans by a group, including, W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington and Moorfield Storey.

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Nadir of American race relations

According to historian Rayford Logan, the nadir of American race relations was the period in the history of the Southern United States from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 through the early 20th century, when racism in the country was worse than in any other period after the American Civil War.

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National Governors Association

The National Governors Association (NGA) is an organization consisting of the governors of the states, territories and commonwealths of the United States.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the largest university press in the world, and the second oldest after Cambridge University Press.

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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, also known simply as the "PG", is the largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Politics of the United States

The United States is a federal republic in which the President, Congress and federal courts share powers reserved to the national government, according to its Constitution.

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Pulitzer Prize

The Pulitzer Prize is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine and online journalism, literature, and musical composition in the United States.

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Racism in United States politics

This article discusses topics and events in United States politics that deal with racism or are considered racist.

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Ray Sprigle

Ray Sprigle (August 14, 1886 in Akron, Ohio — December 22, 1957) was a journalist for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Rice W. Means

Rice William Means (November 16, 1877January 30, 1949) was a Republican United States Senator from Colorado.

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Robert Byrd

Robert Carlyle Byrd (born Cornelius Calvin Sale Jr.; November 20, 1917June 28, 2010) was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia from 1959 to 2010.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Spencer Salisbury

Spencer Salisbury was a war buddy and business partner of Harry S. Truman.

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St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana

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Stetson Kennedy

William Stetson Kennedy (October 5, 1916 – August 27, 2011) was an American author, folklorist, and human rights activist.

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Tennessee's 10th congressional district

United States House of Representatives, Tennessee District 10 was a district of the United States Congress in Tennessee.

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The Colorado Independent

The Colorado Independent is a nonprofit, independent media organization reporting news via its online website that was started in July 2006 and "born again" in September 2013 under new, Colorado-based management.

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The Denver Post

The Denver Post is a daily newspaper and website that has been published in the Denver, Colorado area since 1892.

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The New York Times Magazine

The New York Times Magazine is a Sunday magazine supplement included with the Sunday edition of The New York Times.

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The Straight Dope

"The Straight Dope" was an online question-and-answer newspaper column published from 1973 to 2018 in the Chicago Reader and syndicated in eight newspapers in the United States.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post is a major American daily newspaper founded on December 6, 1877.

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Tom Pendergast

Thomas Joseph Pendergast (July 22, 1872 – January 26, 1945) was an American political boss who controlled Kansas City and Jackson County, Missouri from 1925 to 1939.

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Truman (book)

Truman is a 1992 biography of the 33rd President of the United States Harry S. Truman written by popular historian David McCullough.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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University of Alabama Press

The University of Alabama Press is a university press founded in 1945 and is the scholarly publishing arm of the University of Alabama.

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University of Missouri Press

The University of Missouri Press is a university press operated by the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and London, England; it was founded in 1958 primarily through the efforts of English professor William Peden.

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Walter Mitty

Walter Mitty is a fictional character in James Thurber's short story "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty", first published in The New Yorker on March 18, 1939, and in book form in My World and Welcome to It in 1942.

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Warren G. Harding

Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923) was an American politician who served as the 29th President of the United States from 1921 until his death in 1923.

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Warren T. McCray

Warren Terry McCray (February 4, 1865 near Brook, Indiana – December 19, 1938 in Kentland, Indiana) was the 30th Governor of the U.S. state of Indiana from 1921 to 1924.

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Woodrow Wilson

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan_members_in_United_States_politics

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