Hmmm....Jackson, left being gov. of Indiana in 1929, never heard from again after that...Byrd in 1946 or 1947, Byrd wrote a letter to a
Grand Wizard stating, "The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia and in every state in the nation."....He died IN OFFICE in 2010.... Point made!

1940s... and he ran for office when?
What exactly is the point you're going for here? First you claim a political party invented the KKK, I shot that down. Then you asked for Republican KKK, I gave you two. Neither of those parties invented the KKK.
What have we learned?
I've learned you LIE, have no conception of what is perported as the truth as presented by the LIBERAL PBS, and you're a moron! BTW, Byrd was elected in 1953!
"At the time of
Ulysses S. Grant's election to the presidency, white supremacists were conducting a reign of terror throughout the South. In outright defiance of the Republican-led federal government,
Southern Democrats formed organizations that violently intimidated blacks and Republicans who tried to win political power.
The most prominent of these, the Ku Klux Klan, was formed in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865. Originally founded as a social club for former Confederate soldiers, the Klan evolved into a terrorist organization. It would be responsible for thousands of deaths, and would help to weaken the political power of Southern blacks and Republicans.
Rise of the Ku Klux Klan . U.S. Grant: Warrior . WGBH American Experience | PBS
Now

, please fade away, or do you contend that LIBERAL PBS doesn't know what it's writing?