Albert Pike

About

Officer of the Confederate Army who was also an attorney, a poet, and a Freemason.

Before Fame

He passed the Harvard entrance examination but could not afford the university's tuition and became a schoolteacher instead.

Trivia

He was involved in the Ku Klux Klan during the hateful organization's early years.

Family Life

He was the son of Sarah and Ben Pike.

Associated With

He clashed with his superiors during the Civil War and wrote to Jefferson Davis to complain about several of them.