Anthony Dickinson Sayre was an American lawyer and politician who served as a state legislator in the Alabama House of Representatives, as the President of the Alabama State Senate, and as an Associat
Sayre's uncle, U.S. Senator John T. Morgan, was the second Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan and successfully overturned Reconstruction efforts in the wake of the Civil War.
Alabama Governor Thomas G. Jones signed the 1893 Sayre Act to disenfranchise black voters.
Sayre's daughter was Zelda Fitzgerald, the neo-Confederate wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda revered her father and described herself as "a Typhoid Mary of Confederate tradition".
Zelda Fitzgerald was an American novelist, painter, writer, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. In 1920
Anthony D. Sayre
…Age. As a U.S. Senator, Morgan advocated for black disfranchisement, racial segregation, and lynching African-Americans. Sayre's daughter was socialite Zelda Sayre, the neo-Confederate wife of novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald. There is scholarly speculation regarding whether Anthony D. Sayre sexually abused Zelda as…
F. Scott Fitzgerald photographed in 1917, a few months before meeting Zelda in Montgomery, Alabama
While courting Zelda Sayre, F. Scott Fitzgerald continued to write to Ginevra King, a socialite and heiress, begging her to resume their former relationship.
After marrying in April 1920, Zelda became homesick for the Deep South, prompting her and Scott to embark on a road trip that summer to visit her family in Montgomery, Alabama