Bill Baxley

William Joseph Baxley II (born June 27, 1941), is an American Democratic politician and attorney. From 1983 until 1987, he was the Lieutenant Governor of Alabama.

Baxley reopened the cold case of the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. In a letter, the Ku Klux Klan threatened him, comparing him to John F. Kennedy, and called him an "honorary nigger." Baxley responded, on official state letterhead: "My response to your letter of February 19, 1976, is—kiss my ass."

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