Historians note that in 1922, DeBarr was named Grand Dragon of Oklahoma, and he campaigned extensively for a Klan-supported candidate for governor, Democrat Robert H. Wilson. “DeBarr’s alleged activity in the recent Democratic primary in connection with the Ku Klux Klan occurred during the absence of Stratton Brooks, president of the university,” Muldrow said at the time, implying that DeBarr had gone behind the president’s back.
When asked to respond to the allegations, DeBarr said: “I have been greatly misrepresented. If 30 years of living and doing in Norman and Oklahoma are not a sufficient defense, then I have no other to make.”
It was the epitaph for his university career. He was forcibly dismissed in July 1923.
DeBarr also was known for his attacks against Catholicism. He went on to become “Imperial Kludd,” the title for the Klan’s national chaplain.
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