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With over 250,000 white males (approximately forty-percent of Indiana's population) paying Klan dues in Indiana, Stephenson amassed a fortune estimated from two to five million dollars. [10] In 1922. the Klan-dominated General Assembly passed a Klan Day in the Indiana State Fair , but Republican Governor Warren T. McCray vetoed the bill, earning the ire of Stephenson and the Klan.
While a territory, Indiana had two governors appointed by the president of the United States. Since statehood in 1816, it has had 49 governors, serving 51 distinct terms; Isaac P. Gray and Henry F. Schricker are the only governors to have served non-consecutive terms. Four governors have served two four-year terms; territorial governor William ...
Thomas Beloat. Thomas W. Bennett (territorial governor) Tony Bennett (superintendent) John Berkshire. Tim Berry (politician) Albert J. Beveridge. Horace P. Biddle. James Bingham (Indiana politician) John Birdsell.
D. C. Stephenson. David Curtis " Steve " Stephenson (August 21, 1891 – June 28, 1966) was an American Ku Klux Klan leader, convicted rapist and murderer. In 1923 he was appointed Grand Dragon of the Indiana Klan and head of Klan recruiting for seven other states. Later that year, he led those groups to independence from the national KKK ...
The 2nd district is located in north central Indiana taking in Michiana, including South Bend, Mishawaka, and Elkhart. The incumbent was Republican Jackie Walorski, who was re-elected with 61.5% of the vote in 2020. [1] Walorski died in a car crash on August 3, 2022, alongside three others, among them staff members Emma Thomson and Zach Potts. [38]
The Associated Press declared Jefferson Shreve the winner of the Republican primary for Indiana's 6th Congressional District Tuesday night. Shreve, who ran for mayor of Indianapolis in 2023, led ...
Indiana Klan. The Indiana Klan was a branch of the Ku Klux Klan, a secret society in the United States that organized in 1915 to promote ideas of racial superiority and affect public affairs on issues of Prohibition, education, political corruption, and morality. It was strongly white supremacist against African Americans, Chinese Americans ...
stickers at the vote center for Bloomington precincts 3, 7, and 22 as well as Perry precincts 6, 8, 15 and 31 on Tuesday, May 3, 2022. State representative District 62