Hiram Wesley Evans

1881–1966 (age 85)

Politician

Biography

Hiram Wesley Evans was a politician who rose to national prominence in the 1920s as Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, shaping key debates about the era's social order.

His leadership of that organization remains a sobering reminder of America's struggle with racial intolerance, and he is interred at Westview Cemetery as part of the complex history he helped to define.

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