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On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Stephenson Grand Dragon of the Klu Klux Klan in Indiana, c 1922. Stephenson was tried for and convicted of the abduction, rape, and murder of Madge Oberholtzer, a stephenson’s apple farm baked chicken recipe education official.

His trial, conviction and imprisonment was a severe blow to the public perception of Klan leaders as law abiding. Stephenson’s burial in USVA Mountain Home National Cemetery in Johnson City, Tennessee also led to Congress passing restrictions barring serious sex offenders or those convicted of capital crimes from burial in veterans’ cemeteries. Stephenson was born in Houston, Texas on August 21, 1891, and moved as a child with his family to Maysville, Oklahoma. After some public schooling, he started work as a printer’s apprentice. During World War I, he enlisted in the Army and completed officers’ training.

He never served overseas, but his training proved useful when he organized and led groups. In 1920 at the age of 29, he moved to Evansville, Indiana, where he worked for a retail coal company. He joined the Democratic Party and in 1922, ran unsuccessfully for a Democratic Congressional nomination. Huffington, whom the Ku Klux Klan had sent from Texas as an agent for organizing in Evansville, recruited Stephenson to the group’s inner circle.

The historian Leonard Moore characterized them as both young men on the make. The Evansville Klavern became the most powerful in the state, and Stephenson soon contributed to attracting numerous new members. Building on the momentum, Stephenson set up a base in Indianapolis, where he helped create the Klan’s state newspaper, Fiery Cross. He quickly recruited new agents and organizers, building on news about the organization.

Protestant ministers were offered free membership. From July 1922 to July 1923, nearly 2,000 new members joined the Klan each week in Indiana. Stephenson lived in the William H. Graham House in Indianapolis in the 1920s.

After Evans won, he officially appointed Stephenson as Grand Dragon of Indiana. Privately he made him head of recruiting for seven other states north of Mississippi. In the 1920s, Klan membership grew dramatically in these states. In Indiana, membership grew to nearly 250,000 or about one third of all white males in the state.

My worthy subjects, citizens of the Invisible Empire, Klansmen all, greetings. It grieves me to be late. The President of the United States kept me unduly long counseling on matters of state. Only my plea that this is the time and the place of my coronation obtained for me surcease from his prayers for guidance. Evans and Stephenson’s relationship quickly deteriorated.