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'''Addison Roswell Thompson''', known as '''A. Roswell Thompson''', (November 14, 1911 - February 15, 1976)<ref>http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi</ref> was a minor 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>
'''Addison Roswell Thompson''', known as '''A. Roswell Thompson''' (November 14, 1911 - February 15, 1976),<ref>http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi</ref> was a minor 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, as Thompson often termed it.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=2-84635lwKYC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=a+roswell+thompson&source=web&ots=x7GQssWlS1&sig=ybubCwwMC0CWZHfmLPq34WrK4wo</ref>
Thompson declared himself the Imperial Wizard of his own one-man KKK, the Universal Klan or the Fraternal Order of the Klan, as Thompson often termed it.<ref>http://books.google.com/books?id=2-84635lwKYC&pg=PA152&lpg=PA152&dq=a+roswell+thompson&source=web&ots=x7GQssWlS1&sig=ybubCwwMC0CWZHfmLPq34WrK4wo</ref>
[[Category:Political Figures]]
[[Category:Political Figures]]
[[Caegory:Louisiana]]
[[Category:Louisiana]]