Merlan, Philip

William Gayley Simpson (July 23, 1892 – December 31, 1990) was an American neo-Nazi author, Presbyterian clergyman and lecture-circuit speaker. From the late 1910s to the 1920s, Simpson was a Christian left-wing labor activist and the associate director for the National Civil Liberties Bureau, the precursor to the American Civil Liberties Union. He went on to live an ascetic Christian life, which gained him some amount of notoriety with American Christians, before traveling to India and Japan. …