About Walter Terry Saxon
Lived 1836 – 1924 (aged 88). Walter Terry Saxon was an American politician.
Walter Terry Saxon (April 23, 1836 - December 23, 1924) was a state legislator in the U.S. state of Florida. His father was a prominent plantation owner. He served in the Confederate Army, and was a Ku Klux Klan organizer. He represented Hernando County in the Florida Legislature in 1867. He moved to Texas.
Saxon was born in Autauga County, Alabama. He studied at Alabama Military Institute, and then worked as a surveyor and settled in Brooksville, Florida.
Saxon moved to Texas in 1873. He co-founded the Hamilton Herald. He edited a Hamilton County newspaper and served as county surveyor in Hamilton County. He was survived by a son and daughter.
His brother Benjamin Saxon served as sheriff of Hernando County and died after delivering 1876 election results to Tallahassee.
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American politician and Ku Klux Klan member (1836–1924)
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Walter Terry Saxon was born on 23 April 1836 in Autauga County.
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Walter Terry Saxon died on 23 December 1924.
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Walter Terry Saxon was a politician.
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