Originally Posted by ADL Colin

Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., as President Pro Tempore will be elevated to third in the line of presidential succession

Wikipedia .. "In the early 1940s, when Byrd was 24 years old, he joined the Ku Klux Klan, which he had seen holding parades in Matoaka, West Virginia, as a child. His father had also been a Klan member. Byrd was unanimously elected to be the leader, known as the Exalted Cyclops, of his local chapter."