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'''Addison Roswell Thompson''', known as '''A. Roswell Thompson'''  (November 14, 1911 - February 15, 1976),<ref>Social Security Death Index</ref> was a segregationist candidate for [[governor]] of the U.S. state of [[Louisiana]], and for [[mayor]] of [[New Orleans]], during the 1960s and first half of the 1970s. He was described in his ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'' obituary as "a self-proclaimed racist and wizard of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]." Thompson ran a small taxicab company until he retired in 1972, but became known through his quixotic political campaigns.<ref>Thompson obituary, ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'', February 16, 1976; p. 1, 12; http://www.jfk-online.com/jpshscacs77b.html</ref> Thompson declared himself the Imperial Wizard of his own one-man KKK, the Universal Klan or the Fraternal Order of the Klan, he termed it.<ref name=psimsbook>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-84635lwKYC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=a+roswell+thompson&source=web&ots=x7GQssWlS1&sig=ybubCwwMC0CWZHfmLPq34WrK4wo#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=The Klan|author=Patsy Sims|edition=2nd|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|location=[[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], [[Kentucky]]|date=1996|pages=152–153|accessdate=August 1, 2014}}</ref>

'''Addison Roswell Thompson''', known as '''A. Roswell Thompson'''  (November 14, 1911 &ndash; February 15, 1976),<ref>Social Security Death Index</ref> was a segregationist candidate for [[governor]] of the U.S. state of [[Louisiana]], and for [[mayor]] of [[New Orleans]], during the 1960s and the first half of the 1970s. He was described in his ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'' obituary as "a self-proclaimed racist and wizard of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]." Thompson ran a small taxicab company until he retired in 1972, but became known through his quixotic political campaigns.<ref>Thompson obituary, ''New Orleans Times-Picayune'', February 16, 1976; p. 1, 12; http://www.jfk-online.com/jpshscacs77b.html</ref> Thompson declared himself the Imperial Wizard of his own one-man KKK, the Universal Klan or the Fraternal Order of the Klan, he termed it.<ref name=psimsbook>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2-84635lwKYC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=a+roswell+thompson&source=web&ots=x7GQssWlS1&sig=ybubCwwMC0CWZHfmLPq34WrK4wo#v=onepage&q&f=false |title=The Klan|author=Patsy Sims|edition=2nd|publisher=University Press of Kentucky|location=[[Lexington, Kentucky|Lexington]], [[Kentucky]]|date=1996|pages=152–153|accessdate=August 1, 2014}}</ref>

Thompson sought the governorship thirty-two years before former Klansman [[David Duke]], running as the unendorsed [[Republican]] candidate, lost the 1991 [[general election]] to Democrat [[Edwin Edwards|Edwin Washington Edwards]], who secured his fourth nonconsecutive term in office. Thompson ran in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in December 1959 and December 1963, having polled 4,000 and 3,343 votes, respectively, finishing with less than 1 percent of the vote. The winners of those elections were [[Jimmie Davis]] and [[John J. McKeithen]], respectively. Then Thompson filed in the Democratic mayoral primaries of 1965 and 1969, having received 2,121 votes (1.3 percent) and 1,248 ballots (0.73 percent), respectively.<ref name=psimsbook/> The winners of those elections were the incumbent Victor H. Schiro and Maurice "Moon" Landrieu, respectively. He ran again in 1973, when Landrieu, who forged a coalition of [[African American]]s and white liberals, handily secured a second term.<ref>Elections Statistics, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1969, and 1973, Baton Rouge: Louisiana Secretary of State</ref> In all, Thompson ran for office fourteen times as an avowed Klansman.<ref name=psimsbook/>

Thompson sought the governorship thirty-two years before former Klansman [[David Duke]], running as the unendorsed [[Republican]] candidate, lost the 1991 [[general election]] to Democrat [[Edwin Edwards|Edwin Washington Edwards]], who secured his fourth nonconsecutive term in office. Thompson ran in the Democratic gubernatorial primary in December 1959 and December 1963, having polled 4,000 and 3,343 votes, respectively, finishing with less than 1 percent of the vote. The winners of those elections were [[Jimmie Davis]] and [[John J. McKeithen]], respectively. Then Thompson filed in the Democratic mayoral primaries of 1965 and 1969, having received 2,121 votes (1.3 percent) and 1,248 ballots (0.73 percent), respectively.<ref name=psimsbook/> The winners of those elections were the incumbent Victor H. Schiro and Maurice "Moon" Landrieu, respectively. He ran again in 1973, when Landrieu, who forged a coalition of [[African American]]s and white liberals, handily secured a second term.<ref>Elections Statistics, 1959, 1963, 1965, 1969, and 1973, Baton Rouge: Louisiana Secretary of State</ref> In all, Thompson ran for office fourteen times as an avowed Klansman.<ref name=psimsbook/>

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