Despite being the only Senator to vote against both African American U.S. Supreme Court nominees (liberal Thurgood Marshall and conservative Clarence Thomas) and filibustering the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Byrd has since said joining the Klan was his "greatest mistake."
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Truman was up for reelection, and his friends Edgar Hinde and Spencer Salisbury advised him to join the Klan.
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Wyn Craig Wade has asserted that Edward Douglass White, the Chief Justice of the United States from 1910 to 1921, told Thomas Dixon "I was a member of the Klan" at the 1915 White House screening of The Birth of a Nation.
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Edward L. Jackson, 32nd Governor of Indiana was a member of Indiana branch of the Ku Klux Klan, he became involved in several scandals that continued throughout his term in office.
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