A Trump-loving former KKK leader who was jailed for beating a Black man is running for office as a Republican in Georgia, report says

• Chester Doles is running as a Republican for a spot on the Lumpkin County Board of Commissioners.

• He spent decades involved with the Ku Klux Klan, including a spell as Maryland's Grand Klaliff.

• Doles was jailed in 1993 after being convicted of beating a Black man in Maryland.

Chester Doles, a former leader of the Ku Klux Klan and the neo-Nazi National Alliance, is running for office as a Republican in Georgia, per The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Doles, who spent decades in the KKK, including as Maryland's Grand Klaliff, filed paperwork earlier this year to run for a spot on the Lumpkin County Board of Commissioners in 2022, the paper reported.

The 61-year-old running for a local county commission office in a deeply conservative district has a chequered past. Doles has been to prison twice, per The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

He served four years in prison in 1993 after being convicted on federal charges related to the beating of a Black man in Maryland. In 2003, he was arrested on federal firearms charges and spent four more years in prison.

In December 2016, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that Doles was arrested on assault charges.

The paper said that Doles also had been linked to the Hammerskins — a white-supremacist "skinhead" group.