Tom Metzger | |
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 Tom Metzger in 1990; photo copyright The Oregonian | |
| Born | Thomas Linton Metzger April 9, 1938 Warsaw, Indiana, U.S. |
| Died | November 4, 2020 (aged 82) Hemet, California, U.S. |
| Known for | Head of the White Aryan Resistance Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s |
| Spouse |
Kathleen Murphy
(m. 1963; died 1992) |
| Children | 6 |
Thomas Linton Metzger (April 9, 1938 – November 4, 2020) was an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi leader and Klansman.[1][2][3][4] He founded White Aryan Resistance (WAR), a neo-Nazi organization, in 1983. He was a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. Metzger voiced strong opposition to immigration to the United States, and was an advocate of the Third Position. He was incarcerated in Los Angeles County, California, and Toronto, Ontario, and was the subject of several lawsuits and government inquiries. He, his son, and WAR were fined a total of $12.5 million as a result of the murder of Mulugeta Seraw, 28, an Ethiopian student, by skinheads in Portland, Oregon, affiliated with WAR.[4]
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- ^ Fleming, Lorell (March 15, 2006). "White supremacist Metzger no longer living in Fallbrook, he says". San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
- ^ Marks, Kathy (2014). Faces of Right Wing Extremism. Branden. pp. eq. ISBN 978-0828320160. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
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