Walter F. Bossert
Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon (1885-1946)
Walter Frederick Bossert (27 April 1885 – 14 January 1946) was Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan for Indiana and 17 other states, from 1924 to 1926.
Biography
Bossert was born and attended school in Brookville, Indiana, then obtained his law degree at Indiana University Bloomington in 1907. After several years as a prosecutor and private practice lawyer in Brookville and Terre Haute, Indiana, he settled in Liberty, Indiana. There he established a private practice, and later served as attorney for both Liberty and Union County, Indiana. With his attorney brother Elmer F. Bossert, he was the senior partner in the firm Bossert and Bossert. From 1922 to 1926 he also maintained a law office in Indianapolis, Indiana. The law firm that he founded in Liberty became Toney & Douglass until it closed in 2017.
In 1913 he wed Healen Margaret Roach and they remained married until his death.
Bossert was chairman of the Union County Republican Committee from 1910 to 1914, and was Sixth District chairman from 1916 to 1922. He served on the Republican state committee.
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