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Edward Young Clarke was an advertising executive from Louisiana and the Imperial Wizard pro tempore of the Ku Klux Klan for several years following its revival after 1915; he resigned from leadership in 1922. He devised the kluxing system of payments to the hierarchy within the Klan. Along with Elizabeth Tyler he helped to turn the initially anemic second Ku Klux Klan into a mass-membership organization with a broader social agenda.