James Wickstrom
James Paul Wickstrom (7 October 1942 – 24 March 2018) was an American right-wing activist and Christian Identity minister. He was a founding member of the Posse Comitatus, an anti-government and anti-tax group associated with the broader militia movement. Wickstrom was strongly anti-communist.
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Life
Wickstrom was born and raised in Munising, Michigan.[1] During the 1960s, he protested the Vietnam War on the grounds that it was being fought for "Jew bankers." For a time, he worked as a salesman for Snap-on.
His affiliation with Christian Identity began in the early 1970s, when he joined Mission of Jesus the Christ Church in Humansville, Missouri, which was co-founded by William Potter Gale. In 1980, Wickstrom ran unsuccessfully in Wisconsin as a Constitution Party of Wisconsin candidate for United States Senator, coming in third with 16,156 votes; and he was a Wisconsin representative on the American Independent Party's national committee.[2]
After several unsuccessful political campaigns, Wickstrom became a full-time activist and minister of Christian Identity and the affiliated Posse Comitatus movement. During the 1980s, he drew national attention to the ideology of the Posse Comitatus movement, as an outspoken defender of the rights and concerns of Gordon Kahl, including an appearance on the Phil Donahue Show. Wickstrom was convicted in 1984 on two counts of impersonating a public official. In 1985, after his arrest, he was no longer listed as an official of the Constitution Party of Wisconsin.[3]
In 1995, he opened Information Consulting Corp, a retail store which sold survival gear, outdoor apparel and videotapes about militias.[4] He was also broadcasting a weekly Internet radio program.
Death
In March 2018, it was reported that Wickstrom had died. Details appeared in a report on Michigan-based website Mlive.com, which reported that Wickstrom had been living in Linwood, Michigan.[1]
External links
- James P Wickstrom On The Donahue Show - Internet Archive
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Waterman, Cole (March 28, 2019). James Wickstrom, infamous white supremacist and Nazi sympathizer, dies at 75.
- ↑ Theobald, H. Rupert; Robbins, Patricia V., eds. The state of Wisconsin 1981-1982 blue book Madison: Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, distributed by Document Sales, 1981-1982; pp. 823, 887, 908
- ↑ Theobald, H. Rupert; Robbins, Patricia V., eds. The state of Wisconsin 1985-1986 blue book Madison: Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau, distributed by Document Sales, 1985-1986; p. 836
- ↑ Our Campaigns - Candidate - James P. Wickstrom.
