Editing J. B. Stoner

{{Villain_Infobox
|Image = Jbstoner.jpg
|fullname = Jesse Benjamin Stoner Jr
|alias = Candidate of Love
|origin = La Fayette, Georgia, United States
|occupation = Member of the [[Ku Klux Klan]]<br>Chairman of the National States' Rights Party
|goals = Enforce his racist views by law (failed)
|crimes = [[Racism]]<br>[[Terrorism]]<br>[[Hate crime]]s<br>[[Anti-Semitism]]
|type of villain = Xenophobia
}}
{{Quote|Jews are the vipers of Hell, they should all die in Hell. Being a Jew should be punishable by death. The nigger is a species lower than the apes. Hitler has been the greatest, but still was too moderate. Jesus laughs at their death.|J.B Stoner}}
'''J. B. Stoner''' (April 13th, 1924 - April 23rd, 2005) was an American segregationist, politician, and [[Ku Klux Klan]] member who was convicted in 1980 of the 1958 bombing of the Bethel Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. He also served as the Chairman of the [[National States' Rights Party]], a [[White supremacy|white supremacist]] political party.

==Villainy==
Stoner earned a law degree, and served as the attorney for [[James Earl Ray]]. The Federal Bureau of Investigation also considered Stoner to be a suspect in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and in several bombings of synagogues and black churches during the 1950s and 1960s, such as the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing.

Stoner ran for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Georgia governor of Georgia] in 1970. During this campaign, where he called himself the "candidate of love", he described [http://real-life-villains.wikia.com/wiki/Adolf_Hitler Hitler] as "too moderate," black people as an extension of the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ape ape] family, and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews Jews] as "vipers of hell." The primary was won by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights civil rights] supporter and future [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States President] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter Jimmy Carter]. Stoner then ran for the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate United States Senate] in 1972, finishing fifth in the </span>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_%28United_States%29 Democratic Party] primary with just over 40,000 votes. The nomination and election went to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Nunn Sam Nunn].

During his Senate [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_campaign campaign], the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Communications_Commission FCC] ruled that television stations had to play his ads due to the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine fairness doctrine]. Stoner also ran for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lieutenant_Governor_of_Georgia lieutenant governor] in 1974 and the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate United States Senate] in 1980. His best showing was 73,000 votes (10 percent) in his campaign for lieutenant governor in 1974, when he sought to succeed [[Lester Maddox]] in Georgia's second highest constitutional office. Maddox lost the gubernatorial nomination that year to former legislator [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_D._Busbee George D. Busbee].

In his 1974 lieutenant governor campaign, Stoner placed signs on the Macon Transit Company buses, which Mayor Thompson ordered removed. Stoner promptly went to federal court to secure the return of his paid signs under his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution First Amendment] protection. He even, tongue-in-cheek, urged Georgia blacks to support his nemesis Thompson for governor. Stoner polled more votes for lieutenant governor than were cast for all four candidates in the Republican gubernatorial primary, which Thompson had only barely won.

In 1978, Stoner ran in the Democratic gubernatorial primary and polled 37,654 votes (5.4 percent).

After his conviction for the church bombing in 1980, Stoner [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal appealed] for three years, and when his appeals ran out, he was a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fugitive fugitive] for four months. In 1984, he was permanently removed from the roster of lawyers who may appear before the United States Supreme Court. After his release from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison prison] in 1986. Stoner ran for lieutenant governor in 1990.

When he died on April 23rd, 2005 he still was defending his segregationist views, but acknowledging that his side had lost.
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