Virgil H. "Bert" Effinger (1873 – December 15, 1955) was a renegade member of the Ku Klux Klan who became the leader of the Black Legion in the United States. He advocated a fascist revolution in the US with himself as dictator. When the legion began taking action against the Catholic church, though the murder of religious leaders, the federal government finally cracked down forcing Virgil into hidding. Virgil died in a psychiatric hospital in Toledo, Ohio in 1955.