Goodloe Sutton (21 January 1939-22 September 2023) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who owned The Democrat-Reporter in Alabama from 1964.
Biography[]
Goodloe Sutton was born in Alabama in 1939, and he wrote for the University of Southern Mississippi's student newspaper before purchasing The Democrat-Reporter from his father in 1964. In 1978, he launched a failed US House of Representatives bid as a Democrat. In 1998, he exposed corruption in the Marengo County Sheriff's Office, but he failed to win the Pulitzer Prize and failed to be elected to the State House as a Republican. On 14 February 2019, he called for the Ku Klux Klan to night ride again, and he supported the idea of lynching socialists and communists in Washington DC; he had been known to be misogynistic, anti-Semitic, and racist for years.