Kleagle

Kleagle is the title held by a form of Ku Klux Klan officer whose role is to recruit new members.

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Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia, is a notable Kleagle in KKK history. He was a member of the Klan from his early 20s to his early 30s. He was defending the KKK as late as 1958 when he was 41 years old. He has called his former membership a "mistake."

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Kleagle is also the rank held by Edgar Ray Killen, a Mississippi Klansman long suspected of involvement in a notorious civil rights movement murder that was subject of the movie Mississippi Burning. He was found guilty of manslaughter on June 21, 2005.

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