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((Short description|Ku Klux Klan title))
The '''grand wizard''' (also '''grand and imperial wizard''', '''imperial wizard''' or '''national director''') is the national leader of several different [[Ku Klux Klan]] organizations in the [[United States of America|United States]] and abroad.

The title "Grand Wizard" was used by the first Klan which was founded in 1865 and which existed during the [[Reconstruction era]] until 1872. The second Klan, founded in 1915, styled their national leader the "Imperial Wizard". National officers were styled "Imperial" officers. State or "Realm" officers were styled "Grand" officers. For example, a "Grand Dragon" was the highest-ranking Klansman in a given state.

==National leaders of the Ku Klux Klan==
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This list excludes those grand or imperial wizards of independent Klan factions:

===The first Klan (1865–1872)===
The Ku Klux Klan was founded by six confederate veterans in 1865 but did not elect a Grand Wizard until after [[Nathan Bedford Forrest]] joined in 1867.<ref>((cite book |title=Invisible Empire: The Story of the Ku Klux Klan, 1866–1871 |last=Horn |first=Stanley F. |year=1939 |publisher=Patterson Smith Publishing Corporation |location=Montclair, NJ))</ref><ref>((cite book |editor-last=Fleming |editor-first=Walter J. |title=Ku Klux Klan: Its Origins, Growth and Disbandment |date=1905 |publisher=Neale Publishing))</ref><ref>((cite book|author=Wyn Craig Wade|title=The Fiery Cross: The Ku Klux Klan in America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6O_XYBMhNYAC&pg=PA32|year=1998|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-512357-9|page=32))</ref>
* Nathan Bedford Forrest, Grand Wizard, 1867–1869,<ref>((cite book|author=Jack Hurst|title=Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LIvYI_ER5kC&pg=PA287|date=June 8, 2011|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-307-78914-3|page=287|quote=The next order of business was the naming of a leader and the designation of his title. Nominations were solicited. "The Wizard of the Saddle, General Nathan Bedford Forrest," a voice from the back of the room called out. The nominee was elected quickly, and in keeping with the off-the-cuff impulsiveness of the early Klan, was designated grand wizard of the Invisible Empire.))</ref> Forrest resigned in 1869 and ordered the KKK dissolved although the group remained active until 1872<ref>((cite book|author=United States. Congress. Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States|title=Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire Into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, So Far as Regards the Execution of the Laws, and Safety of the Lives and Property of the Citizens of the United States and Testimony Taken: Report of the Joint committee, Views of the minority and Journal of the Select committee, April 20, 1871 – Feb. 19, 1872|url=https://archive.org/details/reportofjointsel04unit_0|year=1872|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=[https://archive.org/details/reportofjointsel04unit_0/page/n526 14]|quote=When it is considered that the origin, designs, mysteries, and ritual of the order are made secrets; that the assumption of its regalia or the revelation of any of its secrets, even by an expelled member, or of its purposes by a member, will be visited by 'the extreme penalty of the law', the difficulty of procuring testimony upon this point may be appreciated, and the denials of the purposes, of membership in, and even the existence of the order, should all be considered in the light of these provisions. This contrast might be pursued further, but our design is not to connect General Forrest with this order, (the reader may form his own conclusion upon this question,) but to trace its development, and from its acts and consequences gather the designs which are locked up under such penalties.))</ref><ref>[https://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_enforce.html "The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow: The Enforcement Acts, 1870–1871"], Public Broadcast Service ((webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019161432/https://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/stories_events_enforce.html |date=October 19, 2017)). Retrieved December 22, 2022.</ref>

===The second Klan (1915–1944)===
* [[William Joseph Simmons]], Imperial Wizard, second Klan, 1915–1922<ref>((cite book |last=Wade |first=Wyn Craig |year=1987 |title=The Fiery Cross: the Ku Klux Klan in America |publisher=Oxford University Press US |isbn=978-0-671-41476-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/fierycrosskuklux0000wade |oclc=652217460 |url-access=registration |via=Internet Archive |page=[https://archive.org/details/fierycrosskuklux0000wade/page/144/mode/2up 144]))</ref>
* [[Hiram Wesley Evans]], Imperial Wizard, second Klan, 1922–1939((sfn|Wade|1987|p=[https://archive.org/details/fierycrosskuklux0000wade/page/191/mode/2up 191]))
* [[James A. Colescott]], Imperial Wizard, second Klan, 1939–1944;((sfn|Wade|1987|p=[https://archive.org/details/fierycrosskuklux0000wade/page/265/mode/2up 265])) Colescott disbanded the KKK in 1944.((sfn|Wade|1987|p=[https://archive.org/details/fierycrosskuklux0000wade/page/275/mode/2up 275]))

===The third Klan (post–World War II)===
((More citations needed section|date=January 2024))
Major Klan leaders following the disbandment of the second Klan:
* [[Samuel Green (Klansman)|Samuel Green]], Imperial Wizard, Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1949, Green reformed the KKK in 1946 
* [[Samuel Roper (Ku Klux Klan)|Samuel Roper]], Imperial Wizard, Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan 1949–1950
* [[Eldon Edwards]], Imperial Wizard, Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1950–1959,
* [[Roy Elonzo Davis]], Imperial Wizard, Original Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Knights of the Flaming Sword 1959–1964. Both organizations disbanded. 
* [[Robert Shelton (Ku Klux Klan)|Robert Shelton]], Grand Wizard, United Klans of America Inc., 1961–1987, Shelton started a new branch of the KKK
* [[David Duke]], Imperial Wizard, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1974–1981, Duke started a new branch of the KKK
* Bill Wilkinson, Imperial Wizard, Invisible Empire Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1975–1981, Wilkinson formed a competing branch which, at the time, was the largest national KKK organization<ref>((Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/knights-ku-klux-klan |title=Knights of the Ku Klux Klan |website=Southern Poverty Law Center))</ref><ref>((Cite interview |last=Wilkinson |first=Bill |interviewer=Tom Braden and Pat Buchanan |title=CNN Crossfire |url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/bestoftv/2013/09/23/crossfire-1982-kkk-imperial-wizard-bill-wilkinson.cnn |date=1982-11-04))</ref>
* [[Thomas Robb (Ku Klux Klan)|Thomas "Thom" Robb]], National Director, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1989–present<ref>((Cite web |url=https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/thomas-robb |title=Thomas Robb |website=Southern Poverty Law Center))</ref><ref>((Cite web |url=https://christianidentitychurch.net/main/?p=932 |title=Pastor Robb Alive and Well |website=Christian Revival Center via Wayback Machine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231015111009/https://christianidentitychurch.net/main/?p=932 |archive-date=2023-10-15 ))</ref>

==See also==
* [[Ku Klux Klan titles and vocabulary]]
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==References==
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