Tom Metzger

Thomas Linton Metzger (April 9, 1938 – November 4, 2020) was an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi skinhead leader and Klansman. He founded White Aryan Resistance (WAR), a neo-nazi organization, in 1983. He was a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. Metzger voiced strong opposition to immigration to the United States, and was an advocate of the Third Position. He was incarcerated in Los Angeles County, California, and Toronto, Ontario, and was the subject of several lawsuits and government inquiries. He, his son, and WAR were fined $12 million as a result of the murder of Mulugeta Seraw, 28, an Ethiopian student, by skinheads in Portland, Oregon, affiliated with WAR.

Tom Metzger
Tom Metzger in 1990; photo copyright The Oregonian
Born
Thomas Linton Metzger

(1938-04-09)April 9, 1938
DiedNovember 4, 2020(2020-11-04) (aged 82)
Known forHead of the White Aryan Resistance
Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s
Spouse
Kathleen Murphy
(m. 1963; died 1992)
Children6
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