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Sneed, Richard Alexander, 1845-1936

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1845-08-28 - 1936-03-16

Biography

American Confederate veteran, Klansman, and politician. After serving in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War of 1861-1865, he was a co-founder of the Ku Klux Klan chapter in Madison County, Tennessee. A Democrat, he served as the Oklahoma Secretary of State from 1923 to 1927, the Oklahoma State Treasurer from 1927 to 1931, and the Oklahoma Secretary of State again from 1931 to 1935.

Found in 1 Collection or Record:

American Civil War

 File
Identifier: 2006.012.1
Scope and Contents From the File: An artificial collection that consists of materials pertaining to Oklahoma and Oklahomans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is not part of any other collection.The Oklahoma Collection subsumes the old Oklahoma Ephemera, Oklahoma Historical Photos and Docs and Oklahoma Maps collections. Ephemera was a remnant of the McFarlin Reference Department's vertical files, the larger portion having been sent to the Tulsa City-County Library, which was kept during the late 1940s...
Dates: 1864 - 1991

Filtered By

  • Subject: United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Participation, Indian. X