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          Walter Ashby Plecker was unassuming in appearance: a small-town doctor whose penchant for number-crunching earned him the position of registrar in Virginias..

          Walter Plecker

          American physician, eugenicist, and white supremacist activist (1861–1947)

          Walter Plecker

          Walter Plecker at the Bureau of Vital Statistics in 1935

          In office
          1912–1946
          Born(1861-04-02)April 2, 1861
          Augusta County, Virginia, U.S.
          DiedAugust 2, 1947(1947-08-02) (aged 86)
          Richmond, Virginia, U.S.

          Walter Ashby Plecker (April 2, 1861 – August 2, 1947) was an American physician and public health advocate who was the first registrar of Virginia's Bureau of Vital Statistics, serving from 1912 to 1946.

          Surnames, by Counties and Cities, of Mixed Negroid Virginia Families Striving to Pass as “Indian” or White by Walter A. Plecker (ca.

        1. Surnames, by Counties and Cities, of Mixed Negroid Virginia Families Striving to Pass as “Indian” or White by Walter A. Plecker (ca.
        2. It is said to have been introduced by Walter Ashby Plecker in the s to keep ethnic groups from mixing in an attempt to maintain a “pure white race.”.
        3. Walter Ashby Plecker was unassuming in appearance: a small-town doctor whose penchant for number-crunching earned him the position of registrar in Virginias.
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        5. Through the Anglo-Saxon Clubs, Powell, Cox, and Plecker successfully lobbied the state legislature to create laws banning racial intermarriage.

          6. He was a leader of the Anglo-Saxon Clubs of America, a white supremacist organization founded in Richmond, Virginia, in 1922. A eugenicist and proponent of scientific racism, Plecker drafted and lobbied for the passage of the Racial Integrity Act of 1924 by the Virginia legislature; it institutionalized the one-drop rule.

          Plecker was killed after being struck by a car in 1947.

          Early life and education

          Plecker was born in August