Grand Wizard
The Grand Wizard was the head of the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan which was founded in 1865. The Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, founded in 1915, styled their highest-ranking leader the Imperial Wizard. National officers were styled "Imperial" officers. State or "Realm" officers were styled "Grand" officers. A "Grand Dragon", for example, was the highest-ranking Klansman in a given state. Grand wizards or imperial wizards. 1915–1944. This list excludes those Grand or Imperial Wizards of independent Klan factions: Post World War II. Major Klan leaders following the disbandment of the second Klan: Grand Wizard