Willy Knight

Willy Knight was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the first Featherston Administration (served 1934-1939) and former chairman of the Redemption League party of the West. A very ambitious Texan politician, Knight had ambitions of becoming Confederate President until his party was overtaken by Jake Featherston's Freedom Party in the early 1920s. Often sidelined by Featherston, Knight was finally given the Vice President slot in the election of 1933, which he cherished, not realizing the uselessness of the position in normal times that had become even more redundant under Featherston's regime. When the Amendment to the Confederate Constitution that allowed Presidents to run multiple times was made law in 1938, Knight saw the light. He attacked Featherston's motorcade with stalwarts, but failed; his role was uncovered and he was impeached and forced to resign. Knight was immediately arrested and secretly dispatched to Camp Dependable in 1939, where he was murdered on Ferdinand Koenig's order in the fall of 1941.