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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 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>
'''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 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>