Anthony D. Sayre
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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".
John T. Morgan
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John Tyler Morgan was an American politician who was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War and later was elected for six terms as the U.S. senator from the s
Anthony D. Sayre
…boasted in newspaper interviews that his law forever eliminated "the Negro from politics" in the Cotton State. Sayre's uncle and patron was U.S. Senator John Tyler Morgan (D-Alabama), the second Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction and one of the most notorious racist ideologues of the Gilded…
A studio portrait of Morgan taken circa 1860-1869
Morgan and fellow Klan leader Edmund Winston Pettus (pictured) played key roles in overturning Reconstruction efforts in postbellum Alabama.
Morgan circa 1893