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kleagle

(ˈkliːɡəl)
n
(Sociology) (in the US)a person with the rank of an officer in the Ku Klux Klan

klea•gle

(ˈkli gəl)

n.
an official of the Ku Klux Klan.
[1920–25]
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Wallace, a former Chief Kleagle for the Klan in Oregon, attempted to organize a Klan in Winnipeg.
Daniel Carlyle Grant and the Ku Klux Klan in Winnipeg, 1928
When a Kleagle arrived in a community, he tailored his recruiting message to local concerns.
THE MISSOURI JEWISH PRESS AND THE KU KLUX KLAN
What the people who gathered at Newaygo's Park Theater heard on the night of Wednesday, September 5 was likely a polished presentation at an event organized by Cyril Waters, a local man who had worked as a carpenter, traveled to Indiana, and returned as the Kleagle for Newaygo County.
The KKK in 1920s Michigan: one country's encounter
Then there are his cronies - the Imperial Kleagle, the Grand Kligrapp and the Grand Kludd.
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It was split three ways -- $4 to the recruiter, $6 to regional headquarters, divided between the King Kleagle and the national headquarters.
KKK's history in Worcester
Lawson claimed the local leaders had earmarked all the church's collection money for a new Klan building and a new car for the local Kleagle.
George H. Lawson: the rogue who tried to reform baseball
Price informed Edgar Ray Killen, the Neshoba County Klan kleagle (recruiter), of the arrest.
Mississippi justice at last: the trials and convictions of Beckwith, Bowers and Killen
On July 27, 1932, a headline to the article read "Kluckers Klash Kloncerning Kash Kollected by Kleagle," with the subheading, "In Other Words--Klansmen Want to Know What 'Ex-Cleric Maloney is Doing With Their Money.
Upholding social decency and political equality: the Lacombe Western Globe and the Ku Klux Klan, 1929-1932
In 1967, eighteen individuals, including Deputy Sheriff Price, Klan kleagle Killen, and Klan Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers, were charged in a federal civil rights conspiracy trial.
Cleansing moments and retrospective justice
Lott politically lynched, probably by the senior senator from West Virginia in his position as senior kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan a few years before the 100-year-old senator was running for president.
Letters
No sooner had I walked out of the court room when I tore open the letter and saw that it was addressed to the Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan.
Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and the Case of Angelo Herndon
Finally the Bureau hit pay-dirt: not in the case sub judice, but in the interesting private life of the Louisiana Klan's Imperial Kleagle, Edward Young Clarke.
J. Edgar Hoover and the Ku Klux Klan
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