Eventually the UKA peaked with active members and sympathetic support, and reached numbers from around 26,000 to 33,000 throughout the South in 1965, making it the largest Klan faction in the world.

Maine Democrats, however, deserted their party in droves to vote for Gould, in order to break the power of the Republican Klan faction.

This time the Republican candidate, Arthur R. Gould ran on an explicitly anti-Klan platform, winning with the help of large numbers of Democrats who crossed over to send a message to the Klan faction of Republicans.

The 500-strong Knights - the nation's largest Klan faction - sell it on flags and are worried about pirating by unsavory others.

The National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is a Klan faction that has been around since Nov. 1963.

The Association of Georgia Klans, also known as the Associated Klans of Georgia was a Klan faction organized by Dr. Samuel Green in 1944, and led by him until his death in 1949.

The Original Ku Klux Klan of the Confederacy was a Klan faction led by Asa Carter in the late 1950s.

One of those charged, Edward Taylor Jr. of Bridgeport, Tex., was a member of a Klan faction known as the True Knights.

From 1963 to 1987, Mr. Venable was the Imperial Wizard of the National Knights of the Klan, which he organized as one of several rival Klan factions nationally.