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'''Addison Roswell Thompson''', known as '''A. Roswell Thompson''', (November 14, 1911 - February 15, 1976)[1] 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.[2]  
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'''Addison Roswell Thompson''', known as '''A. Roswell Thompson''', (November 14, 1911 - February 15, 1976)[1] 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.[2]  
    
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.[3]  
 
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.[3]  
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