Hiram Wesley Evans

Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard (1881–1966)

Hiram Wesley Evans (September 26, 1881 – September 14, 1966) was an American white supremacist who was Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist hate group, from 1923 until his resignation in 1939. Trained as a dentist, Evans left that profession to pursue Klan leadership, ultimately becoming the organization's most influential figure during its peak period of national growth in the 1920s. A native of Alabama, Evans attended Vanderbilt University studying dentistry.

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