Nathan Bedford Forrest II

{{Short description|American neo-Confederate and Ku Klux Klan official}} {{For|other people with the same name|Nathan Bedford Forrest (disambiguation)}} {{Use American English|date=October 2017}} {{Use mdy dates|date=October 2017}} {{Infobox person | name = Nathan Bedford Forrest II | image = Nathan_bedford_forrest_II.jpg | caption = Nathan Bedford Forrest II in 1918 | birth_date = August 1871 | birth_place = [[Oxford, Mississippi]], U.S. | death_date = March 11, 1931 (aged 59) | death_place = [[White Springs, Florida]], U.S. | resting_place = [[Elmwood Cemetery (Memphis, Tennessee)]] | resting_place_coordinates = {{coord|35|07|20.8|N|90|01|46.4|W|type:landmark|display=inline}} | occupation = [[Businessperson|Businessman]] | title = [[List of commanders-in-chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans|{{nowrap|19th Commander-in-Chief of the}}<br />Sons of Confederate Veterans]] | term = 1919–1921 | predecessor = Carl W. Hinton | successor = Edgar Scurry | spouse = Mattie Patton Forrest | children = [[Nathan Bedford Forrest III]] | relatives = [[Mary Forrest Bradley]] (sister)<br/>[[Nathan Bedford Forrest]] (grandfather) }} '''Nathan Bedford Forrest II''' (August 1871 – March 11, 1931) was an American businessman who served as the [[List of commanders-in-chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans|19th Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans]] from 1919 to 1921,<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Nathan Forrest Will Head Sons |newspaper=[[The Atlanta Journal-Constitution|The Atlanta Constitution]] |volume=LIL |number=117 |location=Atlanta, Ga. |date=October 10, 1919 |page=Two B}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Not to be Candidate |newspaper=[[Arkansas Gazette]] |volume=102 |number=319 |location=Little Rock |date=October 10, 1921 |page=10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |author= |editor-last=Hopkins |editor-first=Walter Lee |date=1926 |title=Year Book and Minutes of the Thirty-First Annual Convention of the Sons of Confederate Veterans in the City of Birmingham, Ala., May 18–21, 1926 |url=https://archive.org/stream/yearbookminuteso31sons |location=Richmond, Va. |publisher=Dudley Printing Co. |page=10}}</ref> and as the [[Grand Dragon]] of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]].<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Grand Dragon of K. K. K. |newspaper=[[Arkansas Gazette]] |volume=103 |number=231 |location=Little Rock |date=July 10, 1922 |page=1}}</ref> Forrest was born in [[Oxford, Mississippi]], in 1871. His grandfather, [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]], was a senior [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]] of the [[Confederate States Army]] who commanded [[cavalry]] in the [[Western Theater of the American Civil War]]. His only son, [[Nathan Bedford Forrest III]], was a senior officer of the [[United States Army Air Forces]] [[killed in action]] in the [[European theatre of World War II|European Theater of World War II]].<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Forrest, One of Klan Organizers, Dies |newspaper=[[Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |volume=90 |number=70 |location=New York City |date=March 12, 1931 |page=1}}</ref>

In the ''[[Confederate Veteran]]'', Nathan Bedford Forrest II claimed that in 1915 he and [[W. Tate Brady|Tate Brady]] were making plans together for an "active campaign throughout Oklahoma" on behalf of the [[Sons of Confederate Veterans]].<ref>Chapman, Lee Roy [http://thislandpress.com/09/01/2011/tate-brady-battle-greenwood/] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230329035958/https://thislandpress.com/2012/04/18/tate-brady-battle-greenwood/ |date=March 29, 2023 }}, "The Nightmare of Dreamland", ''This Land'', September 2011, accessed September 1, 2011.</ref> He served as Secretary and Business Manager at [[Lanier University]] in Atlanta, a college that was sold to the Klan in 1921.<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F50610FF3E5A1B7A93C0A81782D85F458285F9&scp=1&sq=nathan%20bedford%20forrest%20lanier&st=cse] "Forrest Tells Aims of Ku Klux College." ''New York Times.'' September 12, 1921. Accessed September 21, 2011.</ref>

==See also== * [[List of commanders-in-chief of the Sons of Confederate Veterans]]

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