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Homer Martin Adkins (1890-1964) —
also known as Homer M. Adkins —
of Little Rock, Pulaski
County, Ark.
Born in Jacksonville, Pulaski
County, Ark., October
15, 1890.
Democrat. Pharmacist;
served in the U.S. Army during World War I; Pulaski
County Sheriff, 1923-26; insurance
business; U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue for Arkansas,
1933-40; Governor of
Arkansas, 1941-45; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Arkansas, 1944,
1956;
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Arkansas, 1944.
Methodist.
Member, Woodmen of
the World; American
Legion; Freemasons;
Elks;
Ku Klux Klan.
Died, from a heart
ailment, in a hospital
at Malvern, Hot Spring
County, Ark., February
26, 1964 (age 73 years, 134
days).
Interment at Roselawn
Memorial Park, Little Rock, Ark.
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Theodore Gilmore Bilbo (1877-1947) —
also known as Theodore G. Bilbo —
of Poplarville, Pearl
River County, Miss.
Born near Poplarville, Pearl River
County, Miss., October
13, 1877.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; farmer;
member of Mississippi
state senate, 1908-12; Lieutenant
Governor of Mississippi, 1912-16; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Mississippi, 1912
(alternate), 1916
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1928,
1936,
1940,
1944;
Governor
of Mississippi, 1916-20, 1928-32; U.S.
Senator from Mississippi, 1935-47; died in office 1947.
Baptist.
Scotch-Irish
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks; Odd
Fellows; Ku Klux Klan.
Author
of the book Take Your Choice: Separation or Mongrelization,
which advocated deportation of all Black Americans to Africa. During
the 1946 campaign, in a radio address, he called on "every
red-blooded Anglo-Saxon man in Mississippi to resort to any means to
keep hundreds of Negroes from the polls in the July 2 primary. And if
you don't know what that means, you are just not up to your
persuasive measures." After he won re-election, the Senate, appalled
at his racist
views and tactics, refused to
seat him, and started an investigation.
Died, of mouth
cancer, in a hospital
at New Orleans, Orleans
Parish, La., August
21, 1947 (age 69 years, 312
days).
Interment at Juniper
Grove Cemetery, Near Poplarville, Pearl River County, Miss.
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Hugo Lafayette Black (1886-1971) —
also known as Hugo L. Black —
of Birmingham, Jefferson
County, Ala.; Alexandria,
Va.
Born in Harlan, Clay
County, Ala., February
27, 1886.
Democrat. Lawyer;
police court judge in Alabama, 1910-11; Jefferson
County Prosecuting Attorney, 1915-17; served in the U.S. Army
during World War I; U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1927-37; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Alabama, 1936;
Associate
Justice of U.S. Supreme Court, 1937-71; took senior status 1971.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Ku Klux Klan.
Died, in Bethesda
Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Montgomery
County, Md., September
25, 1971 (age 85 years, 210
days).
Interment at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of William La Fayette Black and Martha Ardella (Toland) Black;
married, February
23, 1921, to Josephine Patterson Foster; married, September
11, 1957, to Elizabeth Seay DeMeritte. |
| | | The Hugo L. Black U.S.
Courthouse, in Birmingham,
Alabama, is named for
him. |
| | | Epitaph: "Here lies a good
man." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — federal
judicial profile — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — Arlington National
Cemetery unofficial website |
| | | Books about Hugo L. Black: Roger K.
Newman, Hugo
Black : A Biography — Howard Ball, Hugo
L. Black : Cold Steel Warrior — James F Simon, The
antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and civil liberties in
modern America — Howard Ball & Phillip J. Cooper, Of
Power and Right: Hugo Black, William O. Douglas, and America's
Constitutional Revolution |
| | | Image source: Library of
Congress |
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Wyatt Tate Brady (1870-1925) —
also known as W. Tate Brady —
of Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla.
Born in Forest City, Holt
County, Mo., January
20, 1870.
Democrat. Hotelier;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Oklahoma, 1907.
Member, Ku Klux Klan; Sons
of Confederate Veterans.
Died from a self-inflicted
gunshot
wound, in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., August
29, 1925 (age 55 years, 221
days).
Interment at Oaklawn
Cemetery, Tulsa, Okla.
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Robert Carlyle Byrd (1917-2010) —
also known as Robert C. Byrd; Cornelius Calvin Sale
Jr.; "King of Pork" —
of Sophia, Raleigh
County, W.Va.
Born in North Wilkesboro, Wilkes
County, N.C., November
20, 1917.
Democrat. Grocer; lawyer;
member of West
Virginia state house of delegates from Raleigh County, 1947-50;
member of West
Virginia state senate 9th District, 1951-52; U.S.
Representative from West Virginia 6th District, 1953-59; U.S.
Senator from West Virginia, 1959-; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from West Virginia, 1960,
1996,
2000,
2004,
2008;
speaker, 1988.
Baptist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias; Odd
Fellows; Elks; Moose; Eagles;
Lions;
Farm
Bureau; Tau
Kappa Epsilon; Ku Klux Klan.
Died in Fairfax,
Va., June 28,
2010 (age 92 years, 220
days).
Interment at Columbia
Gardens Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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David Ernest Duke (b. 1950) —
also known as David Duke —
of Louisiana.
Born in Tulsa, Tulsa
County, Okla., July 1,
1950.
Candidate for Democratic nomination for President, 1988;
member of Louisiana
state house of representatives 81st District, 1989-92; Republican
candidate for U.S.
Senator from Louisiana, 1990, 1996; candidate for Republican
nomination for President, 1992.
Member, Ku Klux Klan.
Still living as of 2018.
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Nathan Bedford Forrest (1821-1877) —
also known as "Wizard of the Saddle" —
of Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn.
Born near Chapel Hill, Bedford County (now Marshall
County), Tenn., July 13,
1821.
Democrat. Cotton planter; slave
trader; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; in
April 1864, after the Battle of Fort Pillow, Tennessee, Confederate
troops under his command massacred
African-American Union soldiers, not accepting them as prisoners,
since the Confederacy refused to
recognize ex-slaves as legitimate combatants; this event, seen as
a war
crime, sparked outrage
across the North, and a congressional inquiry;
in 1867, he became involved in the Ku Klux
Klan and was elected Grand Wizard; the organization used violent
tactics to intimidate
Black voters and suppress
their votes; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Tennessee, 1868;
in 1869, he had a change of heart, and issued a letter ordering that
the Klan be dissolved and its costumes destroyed; he went on to
denounce the group and its crimes; in 1875, he gave a "friendly
speech" to a meeting of an African-American organization in Memphis,
calling for peace, harmony, and economic advancement of former
slaves; for this speech, he was vehemently denounced in the Southern
press.
English
ancestry. Member, Ku Klux Klan.
After his death, he became a folk hero among white Southerners,
particularly during the imposition of Jim Crow segregation laws in
the early 20th century, and later, in reaction to the Civil Rights
movement in the 1950s and 1960s.
Slaveowner.
Died, from complications of diabetes,
in Memphis, Shelby
County, Tenn., October
29, 1877 (age 56 years, 108
days).
Original interment at Elmwood
Cemetery, Memphis, Tenn.; reinterment in 1904 at Health Sciences Park, Memphis, Tenn.; memorial monument at Myrtle
Hill Cemetery, Rome, Ga.; memorial monument at Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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Mrs. Kaja Lindland —
of Muskegon Heights, Muskegon
County, Mich.
Candidate for mayor
of Muskegon Heights, Mich., 1926.
Female.
Member, Ku Klux Klan.
Burial location unknown.
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Earle Bradford Mayfield (1881-1964) —
also known as Earle B. Mayfield —
of Meridian, Bosque
County, Tex.
Born in Overton, Rusk
County, Tex., April
12, 1881.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Texas
state senate, 1907-13; Texas
railroad commissioner, 1913-22; U.S.
Senator from Texas, 1923-29; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Texas, 1924.
Methodist.
Member, Ku Klux Klan; Kappa
Sigma; Freemasons.
Died in Tyler, Smith
County, Tex., June 23,
1964 (age 83 years, 72
days).
Interment at Oakwood
Cemetery, Tyler, Tex.
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Rice William Means (1877-1949) —
also known as Rice W. Means; "Puffed
Rice" —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in St. Joseph, Buchanan
County, Mo., November
16, 1877.
Republican. Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer;
Adams
County Judge, 1902-04; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War
I; U.S.
Senator from Colorado, 1924-27.
Methodist.
Member, Veterans of
Foreign Wars; United
Spanish War Veterans; American
Legion; Ku Klux Klan.
Died in Denver,
Colo., January
30, 1949 (age 71 years, 75
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Tom Metzger —
of California; Warsaw, Kosciusko
County, Ind.
Democratic candidate for U.S.
Representative from California 43rd District, 1980; candidate in
Democratic primary for U.S.
Senator from California, 1982; convicted
in 1991 of burning a
cross (as a form of hate speech
or intimidation) and sentenced
to prison;
in 1992, he was arrested
in Canada for violating immigration
laws.
Member, John
Birch Society; Ku Klux Klan.
Still living as of 2012.
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Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. (b. 1940) —
also known as Glenn Miller; "Frazier Glenn
Cross"; "Rounder" —
of North Carolina; Aurora, Lawrence
County, Mo.
Born in Springfield, Greene
County, Mo., 1940.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam war; candidate in
Democratic primary for Governor of
North Carolina, 1984; candidate in Republican primary for North
Carolina state senate, 1986; convicted
on federal contempt
of court charges in 1986; sentenced
to one year in prison, but disappeared
while out on bond; later captured
in Missouri, along with four other Klansmen and a cache of weapons;
indicted
in 1987 for plotting robberies
and an assassination;
in a deal with prosecutors, he pleaded
guilty to a weapons
charge and to making threats
through the mail; served three years in prison;
candidate for U.S.
Representative from Missouri 7th District, 2006; candidate for
U.S.
Senator from Missouri, 2010; on April 13, 2014, in an apparent hate
crime he shot
and killed three people at a Jewish community center and
retirement complex in Overland Park, Kansas.
Member, Ku Klux Klan.
Still living as of 2014.
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Josiah Love Pearcy (1843-1909) —
also known as Josiah L. Pearcy —
Born in Tennessee, 1843.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; U.S. Consul in
Aspinwall, as of 1897; secretary to U.S. Senator Robert
L. Taylor of Tennessee.
Member, Ku Klux Klan.
Died, from Bright's
disease, in Washington,
D.C., June 18,
1909 (age about 65
years).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Edmund Winston Pettus (1821-1907) —
also known as Edmund W. Pettus —
of Selma, Dallas
County, Ala.
Born in Limestone
County, Ala., July 6,
1821.
Democrat. Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; went
to California for the 1849 Gold Rush; circuit judge in Alabama,
1855-58; general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Alabama, 1876,
1880,
1884,
1888,
1892;
U.S.
Senator from Alabama, 1897-1907; died in office 1907.
Member, Ku Klux Klan.
Slaveowner.
Died in Hot Springs, Madison
County, N.C., July 27,
1907 (age 86 years, 21
days).
Interment at Live
Oak Cemetery, Selma, Ala.
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Benjamin F. Stapleton (b. 1873) —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Paintsville, Johnson
County, Ky., November
12, 1873.
Democrat. Colonel in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War;
lawyer;
postmaster at Denver,
Colo., 1915-21; oil
business; mayor of
Denver, Colo., 1923-31, 1935-47; Colorado
state auditor, 1933-35; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Colorado, 1940.
Member, Freemasons;
Ku Klux Klan.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives:
Married 1917 to Mabel
Freeland. |
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Joseph R. Waldrop (1825-1872) —
of Alabama.
Born in Mississippi, 1825.
Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1869.
Methodist.
Member, Ku Klux Klan.
Shot
and killed
while getting off his horse in front of a boarding
house in Escatawpa, Washington
County, Ala., 1872
(age about
47 years).
Interment at Old
Escatawpa Cemetery, Escatawpa, Ala.
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Clifford Mitchell Walker (1877-1954) —
also known as Clifford M. Walker —
of Monroe, Walton
County, Ga.; Atlanta, Fulton
County, Ga.
Born in Monroe, Walton
County, Ga., July 4,
1877.
Democrat. Mayor, Monroe, Ga., 1902-04; board chairman, Bank of
Monroe; Georgia
state attorney general, 1915-20; Governor of
Georgia, 1923-27; delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Georgia, 1928.
Baptist.
Member, American Bar
Association; Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons;
Ku Klux Klan; Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Monroe, Walton
County, Ga., November
9, 1954 (age 77 years, 128
days).
Interment at Old
Baptist Cemetery, Near Monroe, Walton County, Ga.
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William Blackburn Wilson Jr. (1850-1920) —
of Rock Hill, York
County, S.C.
Born in York, York
County, S.C., January
12, 1850.
Lawyer;
fled
to Texas in 1871-73 to avoid federal
prosecution over his Klan
activities; member of South
Carolina state house of representatives from York County,
1884-88; member of South
Carolina state senate from York County, 1888-92; delegate
to South Carolina state constitutional convention from York
County, 1895.
Episcopalian.
Member, Ku Klux Klan; Knights
of Pythias; Freemasons.
Died in Rock Hill, York
County, S.C., April
30, 1920 (age 70 years, 109
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Cemetery, York, S.C.
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Fred William Yoos (1879-1940) —
also known as Fred W. Yoos —
of Akron, Summit
County, Ohio.
Born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, January
20, 1879.
Served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American War; railroad
flagman; police
officer; rubber tire
worker; after serving as an organizer for the Ku Klux Klan, he
resigned, or was expelled, and announced in January 1923 that he
would expose corruption and "un-American prejudice" in the local Klan
organization; on January 18, police received an anonymous "tip off"
that Yoos was illegally carrying a
concealed weapon; he was searched,
and no weapon was found on his person, but a companion had a gun, and
Yoos was arrested
and held in jail for days until released; he continued to express
opposition to the Ku Klux Klan, but did not make the disclosures he
promised; Independent candidate for mayor of
Akron, Ohio, 1923.
German
ancestry. Member, Ku Klux Klan; Freemasons.
Died in Akron, Summit
County, Ohio, May 31,
1940 (age 61 years, 132
days).
Interment at Rose
Hill Burial Park, Fairlawn, Ohio.
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of Fred B. Yoos and Katie (Hurst) Yoos; married, October
24, 1900, to Hedwig 'Hattie' Wojahn. |
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