Английская Википедия:Ira B. Thompson
Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox officeholder Ira Bowman Thompson (April 9, 1889 – August 10, 1973) was a politician, Ku Klux Klan leader, and attorney from the U.S. state of Alabama.
Thompson was born to Albert and Laura (née Crabtree) Thompson at Bay Minette, Alabama in 1889.[1] After attending school in Bay Minette, Thompson attended the University of Alabama and Meridian College in Mississippi, graduating from the latter in 1910.[1] Thompson then entered into military service, eventually becoming Captain of Company B of the 1st Alabama Infantry in 1915. He also served a brief term in the Alabama House of Representatives as a representative for Baldwin County in that same year.[1] He was admitted to the bar in 1916 but he was quickly called into federal military service in 1917 when he was sent to France in 1918 to command a Prisoner of War camp until the prisoners were repatriated back to Germany in 1919.[1] After his return to the United States, Thompson opened a law practice in Luverne, Alabama and arranged Battery A of the 141st Field Artillery in the National Guard, which he would later resign from in 1932.[1]
Thompson was an active member of the local Ku Klux Klan organization in Crenshaw County and Luverne in the late 1920s, serving as the exalted cyclops[2] of the Crenshaw KKK around 1927 and 1928.[3] In October 1927, Thompson, along with 35 other suspected Klansmen were all indicted by the Crenshaw County grand jury on the basis of their participation of floggings throughout the county.[4][5] The case, however was dropped later in December by the attorney general's withdrawal on his belief that the state police had assisted the Klan.[6] Less than a year after Thompson's indictment, Governor Bibb Graves appointed him the prosecuting attorney of Crenshaw County.[7][8]
In 1927, Thompson was appointed solicitor of Luverne, and was re-elected to two more consecutive terms in 1928 and 1932.[1] He was called back to active military service in 1942 when he was a captain in the military police corps. He had previously served as the attorney for Crenshaw County since 1941.[1] He sat once again in the Alabama House of Representatives, this time for Crenshaw County as a Democrat from 1943 until 1951.[9][10]
Thompson married Eugenia Marie Little in 1917. They had one child, Mary Eugenia.[1] He was an active community member, sitting on the state athletic commission, Luverne's education board, founding the Lurverne Bank and Trust Company, and serving as a member in the local Lion's Club, Red Cross and American Legion. He also taught Sunday school at his church for over 30 years.[1] He died in 1973 in Luverne.[11]
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