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J.B. Stoner

Jesse Benjamin "J.B." Stoner (born 1924) is a White supremacist.

Stoner suffered from polio at the age of 2, leaving him with a limp. He came from a family which had a sight-seeing company in Lookout Mountain, Tennessee and Chattanooga, Tennessee. Stoner's father Jesse Benjamin Sr. died when J.B. was five and his mother Minnie died when J.B. was 17.

At a young age, Stoner admired segregationalist politician Theodore Bilbo. Stoner was active in white supremacist groups and traveled to Washington D.C. to support Bilbo.

Stoner's bad leg kept him out of duty during World War II. After the War, Stoner rechartered a chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Chattanooga. Stoner said that "being a Jew [should] be a crime punishable by death." Stoner also ran the National States' Rights Party .

Stoner earned a law degree, and served as a lawyer to James Earl Ray. The FBI also investigated Stoner in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and for bombings of black churches, such as the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.

Stoner ran for Governor of Georgia in 1970. He then ran for the United States Senate in 1972, finishing fifth in the Democratic Party primary with over 40,000 votes. During his Senate campaign, the FCC ruled that television stations had to play his ads due to the fairness doctrine. His ads included the word "nigger" and claims by Stoner that "The main reason why the niggers want integration is because niggers want our white women". Stoner also received 73,000 votes (10% of the vote) in his campaign for Lieutenant Governor in 1978.

Stoner was indicted for the 1958 bombing of an empty church in Birmingham, Alabama. He was then convicted in 1980. Stoner appealed for three years, and when his appeals ran out, he was a fugitive for four months. After his release from prison in 1986, Stoner ran for office again.

J.B. Stoner is currently lives in a nursing home and his left side is partially paralyzed due to a stroke.

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