Edmund Winston Pettus (born July 6, 1821 – July 27, 1907) was an American politician who represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1897 to 1907. He served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army, commanding infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. After the war, he was politically active in the Ku Klux Klan, serving as a Grand Dragon.
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6 July 1821 Athens, Alabama
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Died |
27 July 1907 (aged 86) Hot Springs, North Carolina, U.S.
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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