# James Coyle

> James Edwin Coyle was an American Catholic priest who was murdered in Birmingham, Alabama, by a Ku Klux Klan member for performing a marriage between Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican Catholic, and a recent Catholic convert, Ruth Stephenson. The killer, E. R. Stephenson, was Ruth's father and opposed what he saw as an interracial union. He would ultimately be acquitted by a jury.

*American priest (1873-1921)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Religious Figure
- **Category:** Religious Figures
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1873-03-23
- **Died:** 1921-08-11
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

James Edwin Coyle was an American Catholic priest who was murdered in Birmingham, Alabama, by a Ku Klux Klan member for performing a marriage between Pedro Gussman, a Puerto Rican Catholic, and a recent Catholic convert, Ruth Stephenson. The killer, E. R. Stephenson, was Ruth's father and opposed what he saw as an interracial union. He would ultimately be acquitted by a jury.

## Fame
- **Fame score:** 45.7
- **Momentum:** 6.0

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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1680214)

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