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Anthony D. Sayre

American politician and judge · United States · Lawyers · Lived 1858 to 1931 · aged 73

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Sayre's uncle, U.S. Senator John T. Morgan, was the second Grand Dragon of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan and successfully overturned Reconstruction efforts in the wake of the Civil War.

Alabama Governor Thomas G. Jones signed the 1893 Sayre Act to disenfranchise black voters.

Sayre's daughter was Zelda Fitzgerald, the neo-Confederate wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Zelda revered her father and described herself as "a Typhoid Mary of Confederate tradition".

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Anthony Dickinson Sayre was an American lawyer and politician who served as a state legislator in the Alabama House of Representatives (1890-1893), as the President of the Alabama State Senate (1896-1897), and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Alabama (1909-1931). Influential in Alabama politics for nearly half a century, Sayre is widely regarded by historians as the legal architect who laid the foundation for the state's Jim Crow laws.

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