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'''Arthur Hornbui Bell''' (February 14, 1891 - March 1973)  was a [[Ku Klux Klan]] [[Grand Giant]]<ref>Earliest sources name Bell as Grand Giant which is below the rank state Grand Dragon</ref> and lawyer from [[Bloomfield, New Jersey]].<ref>''Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan'', By David Mark Chalmers, page 322</ref> Bell had been a leader of the New Jersey Klan since the [[1920s]]. In 1940 he was removed from the Klan by [[Imperial Wizard]] [[James Colescott]] for helping to organize the [[August 18]] joint meeting of two hundred Klansmen and eight hundred [[German American Bund]] members at [[Bund Camp Nordland]].
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==Early years==
He was born on February 14, 1891 in [[New York City]] to William John Bell of [[England]].<ref>Wild, Michael R., great-grandson of Arthur H. Bell and Leah: downloaded copy of WW1 draft card and 1920 census for New Jersey, Essex county, Bloomfield.</ref> Arthur was a member of a vaudeville team known as "Bell and Bell", after marrying Leah Hamlin (1895–1951).<ref>Wild, Michael R., great-grandson of Arthur H. Bell and Leah picture of tombstone for Leah in Ovid, Michigan.</ref><ref>{{cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Women of the Klan |year=1992 |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |quote= | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=tcEyMwIpgRMC&pg=PA214&dq=%22Leah+H.+Bell%22&ei=COJXSe3KDaDkzQSU6rDiDA |isbn=0520078764 }}</ref> They went to Europe after [[World War I]] in 1919 to entertain the troops, "for the boys," as a members of the "Y" and "Overseas Theater League under Y.M.C.A.".<ref>Wild, Michael R., great-grandson of Arthur H. Bell and Leah</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bell-Arthur_1919_passport_02.jpg |title=Arthur H. Bell passport application page 2|accessdate=2009-12-13 |quote= |publisher=[[United States Department of State]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bell-Arthur_1919_passport_01.jpg |title=Arthur H. Bell passport application page 1|accessdate=2009-12-13 |quote= |publisher=[[United States Department of State]] }}</ref> Leah Bell rode a [[unicycle]] and Art and Leah had [[ventriloquism]] dummies shows.<ref>Wild, Michael R., great-grandson of Arthur H. Bell from family stories and pictures. Pictures show the Arthur and Leah in Y.M.C.A uniforms in Europe in pictures clearly taken after the war</ref> Arthur Bell is known to have been a member of the "Over There" theatre organized under [[Benjamin Franklin Keith]] and visited Belgium, England, France, and Holland.<ref name="ReferenceA">Wild, Michael R., FOI/PA No. 1133485-000 Unclassified 17 September 2009 case #690F-09: Investigation Report of Arthur Bell Army Air Forces</ref> Art and Leah are also listed in the official record of the "Over There" theater as vaudeville players.<ref>{{cite book |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title= Entertaining the American Army |year=1921 |publisher=Association Press |page= 251| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=aN8MAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Entertaining+the+american+army#v=onepage&q=&f=false}}</ref>

==Klan years==
Around 1922, Bell became the [[Grand Dragon]] of the [[Ku Klux Klan]] for [[New Jersey]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://fierycross.org/den/index.php?blog=3&m=200711 |title=The good of the Klan |accessdate=2008-08-14 |quote=The KKK first spread to New Jersey from the states of New York and Pennsylvania early in 1921 and has had a history of being a peaceful Klan. Attorney Arthur Bell was N.J.’s first and longest reigning Grand Dragon. He ruled the New Jersey KKK right up to the Klan’s disbandment in the 1940’s. His wife, Leah Bell, was the state leader of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. The Klan’s first strongholds were in Passaic, Bergen, Essex, Union, and Morris counties and in the area around Trenton and Camden. But the Klan grew strongest in Monmouth county. |publisher= |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20080630080608/http://fierycross.org/den/index.php?blog=3&m=200711 |archivedate = 2008-06-30}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Dragon's Praise |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,711546,00.html |quote=As long as TIME plays fair, it will remain a pleasure for me to receive my weekly copy. I note that some subscribers take exception to things you say about their "pet" ideas. You have rapped my Organization several times but this has not changed my opinion of TIME. In such cases I smile at your mistakes and misunderstanding and wait for the time to arrive when you will know facts. You can rest assured that TIME has a great future before it and will continue to build up a first class list of subscribers. |publisher=[[Time (magazine)]] |year=1927 |accessdate=2008-06-14 }}</ref><ref name=liberty>{{cite book |last=White |first=Alma |authorlink=Alma Bridwell White |coauthors= |title=Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty |year=1926 |publisher=[[Pillar of Fire]] |quote=The Introduction to this book is by Arthur H. Bell, Grand Dragon, Realm of New Jersey, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=NadkzQt6imAC&pg=PA159&vq |isbn= }}</ref> In 1925 he wrote the introduction to [[Alma White]]'s pro Klan book, [[The Ku Klux Klan In Prophecy]]:
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This book brings out vividly the titanic struggle now taking place, not only in the United States, but over the entire world, and while at the present time the battle raging has not reached the point where bullets, swords and poison gas are the reasons used, the time will soon arrive when the Roman Catholic craving for world-power will, if not checked, cause a revival of a religious war that will be far more disastrous than the late World War. Bishop White deserves the highest praise for her work on this truly wonderful book of "light" and it is hoped that it may reach out into the minds of Protestants and Catholics alike and bring them to a sense of realization as to where this great un-American movement to make the world Catholic will ultimately end.<ref name=ferguson>{{cite book |author=[[Charles Wright Ferguson]] |coauthors= |title=The New Books of Revelations: The Inside Story of America's Astounding Religious Cults |year=1929 |publisher=[[Kessinger Publishing]] |quote=This book brings out vividly the titanic struggle now taking place, not only in the United States, but over the entire world ...| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=u4DCuEVB42AC&pg=PA271&dq=%22The+Ku+Klux+Klan+In+Prophecy%22&cd=10#v=onepage&q=%22The%20Ku%20Klux%20Klan%20In%20Prophecy%22&f=false |isbn=1417979550 }}</ref><ref name=prophecy>{{cite book |author=[[Alma White]] |coauthors= |title=The Ku Klux Klan In Prophecy|year=1925 |publisher=[[Pillar of Fire Church|Pillar of Fire]] |quote=This book brings out vividly the titanic struggle now taking place, not only in the United States, but over the entire world ...| url=http://books.google.com/books?id=XeH1wYi_Ke4C&dq=ku+klux+klan+in+prophecy&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=TfUz1cHRVC&sig=4qeE93BR3Np-4XxDLtkGIYDhz38&hl=en&ei=gbjcSeyEK5CaMrvPgNQN&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5}}</ref>
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In 1926, he wrote the introduction to [[Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty]] and he headed a group that converted [[Camp Evans]] into a Klan resort.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Klan Has Summer Resort. Buys Old Marconi Radio Station of {{convert|396|acre|km2}} on Shark River. |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30A11FA35591B7A93C2AB178DD85F428285F9 |quote=Establishment of a Summer resort for the Ku Klux Klan on the Shark River at New Bedford is being fostered by officials of the New Jersey Realm of the Klan. The project is in its first stages, but tents and bungalows have been erected. Only members of the Klan or affiliated organizations are admitted to the {{convert|396|acre|km2|sing=on}} reservation, which until a year ago was owned by the Radio Corporation of America and was known as the Marconi Radio Station. The property was purchased by the Monmouth Pleasure Club, a holding company of Klansmen, and is now State headquarters of the organization. The Klan is to give demonstrations of its strength on July 3, 4 and 5, and on the last day will parade along the Ocean Boulevard of northern seashore resorts. |publisher=[[New York Times]] |date=June 20, 1926 |accessdate=2008-06-14 }}</ref> In the same year, he was paid $1,596.96 by the [[King Kleagle]] of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey, to save the Kleagle's son, Roscoe Carl Ziegler, from charges of embezzlement.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Jersey Klan Head Sued by Ziegler Kin. Eloping Pastor's Parents Seek $1,596 Paid, They Say, to Avert Embezzlement Action. He Was Freed By Court. Couple Declare They Acted Without Advice. Minister and Wife Now in Virginia. |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F60B12FF3D5F17738DDDAA0994DB405B868EF1D3 |quote=Alleging that they paid $1,596.96 to Arthur H. Bell of Long Branch, King Kleagle of the Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey, to save their son, Roscoe Carl Ziegler, from prosecution on a charge of embezzling Klan funds, Mr. and Mrs. William E. Ziegler of Milford, Pa., filed suit today in the Court of Chancery here to recover the money. |publisher=[[New York Times]] |date= March 13, 1926|accessdate=2008-06-14 }}</ref> In 1928, he called the [[New York Governor]], [[Al Smith]] unfit to lead.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Klan Dragon Calls Smith Unfit |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F2081EF63D5B167A93CAA91782D85F4C8285F9 |quote=Governor Smith was characterized as unfit spiritually, mentally and morally for the Presidency in an address here a tonight by State Dragon Arthur H. Bell of the Ku Klux Klan before an audience of 600, some of whom wore the uniforms of the Klan private police. ... |publisher=[[New York Times]] |date=September 8, 1928 |accessdate=2008-08-14 }}</ref>

His first wife's Leah spoke at many Klan events.<ref>{{cite book |last=Chalmers |first=David Mark |authorlink=David Mark Chalmers |coauthors= |title=Hooded Americanism: the first century of the Ku Klux Klan, 1865-1965|year=1965 |publisher= |quote=So was Arthur Bell, who with his wife, Leah, often represented the New Jersey | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=CT9HAAAAMAAJ&q |isbn=}}</ref><ref>Wild, Michael R., great-grandson of Arthur H. Bell, Leah was his first wife. He and Leah divorced and he re-married</ref> In 1940 he was investigated by the [[Dies Committee]] for plans to merge the KKK and the German American Bund.<ref>{{cite book |last=Wyn |first=Craig Wade |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Flaming Cross|year=1998 |publisher= |quote=When asked what he thought about a Klan-Nazi merger, Bell said that he had thought it a good idea at the time, 'but I don't now.' | url=http://books.google.com/books?id=6O_XYBMhNYAC&source=gbs_navlinks_s|isbn=}}</ref> Bell was interviewed by the Military Intelligence Service and investigated for "disaffection" in 1942. The case was closed, "no further investigation appears warranted," and the report sent to [[J. Edgar Hoover]] <ref name="ReferenceA"/> Later in life he had changed his outlook and said: "I think tolerance should be taught in the public schools."<ref>{{cite news |first= Jan|last= King|authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Bedsheets Are Flapping Again |url=http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F00E12FB3C5F12728DDDA90B94DA415B898BF1D3 |quote= The community of West Hoboken no longer exists. But it did 50 years ago, when I was born there and it was the state head quarters of the Ku Klux Klan. ... Eventually, Arthur Bell, a one-time Klan leader in the state, would admit: "I think tolerance should be taught in the public schools ... |publisher=[[New York Times]] |date=December 30, 1979 |accessdate=2008-06-14 }}</ref>

==Works==
* ''The Ku Klux Klan Or the Knights of Columbus Klan: America Or Rome'' (1921) 32 pages
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=NadkzQt6imAC&pg=PA159&vq Klansmen: Guardians of Liberty] (1926) by [[Alma White]], he wrote the introduction

==References==
{{Reflist|2}}

==Images==
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Image:Bell_and_camp_hand_bill.jpg|Vaudeville team with Art and Leah circa 1910
Image:Leah Bell handbill.jpg|Bottom part of hand bill with Leah's act circa 1910
File:Bell-Arthur 1917 draft.jpg|WWI draft of 1917
Image:AHB LB Portrait.jpg|Art and Leah Portrait from WW1
Image:AHB with tank.jpg|Art and Leah with tank from WW1
File:Bell-Arthur 1919 passport 01.jpg|Page 1 of passport application of April 1, 1919
File:Bell-Arthur 1919 passport 02.jpg|Page 2 of passport application of April 1, 1919
File:1920 census Bell.jpg|1920 US Census
Image:AHB Flyer Flint.JPG|Flyer from show
File:Bell-Arthur 1941 draft.jpg|WWII draft of 1941
</gallery>

==See also==
* [[Alton Milford Young]]
{{SecondKKK}}
{{Persondata 
| NAME = Bell, Arthur H.
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
| SHORT DESCRIPTION = [[Grand Dragon]] of the [[Ku Klux Klan in New Jersey]]
| DATE OF BIRTH = February 14, 1891
| PLACE OF BIRTH = [[New York City]]
| DATE OF DEATH = 1973
| PLACE OF DEATH = possibly [[Bloomfield, New Jersey]] or [[Trenton, New Jersey]]
}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bell, Arthur H.}}

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	Image:Bell_and_camp_hand_bill.~~jpg~~\|Vaudeville team with Art and Leah circa 1910		Image:Bell_and_camp_hand_bill.png\|Vaudeville team with Art and Leah circa 1910
	Image:Leah Bell handbill.~~jpg~~\|Bottom part of hand bill with Leah's act circa 1910		Image:Leah Bell handbill.png\|Bottom part of hand bill with Leah's act circa 1910
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	File:1920 census Bell.~~jpg~~\|1920 US Census		File:1920 census Bell.png\|1920 US Census
	Image:AHB Flyer Flint.JPG\|Flyer from show		Image:AHB Flyer Flint.JPG\|Flyer from show
	File:Bell-Arthur 1941 draft.~~jpg~~\|WWII draft of 1941		File:Bell-Arthur 1941 draft.png\|WWII draft of 1941
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