After his military retirement, he served three years with the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, a congressional committee in which he held a supervisory role over the Atomic Energy Commission’s weapons budget. From 1977 to 1983, he was a self-employed management consultant.

His military decorations included the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit.

Albion Williamson Knight Jr. was born in Jacksonville, Fla. He was a 1945 graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., and in 1950 received a master’s degree in communications engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He received a master’s degree in international affairs from American University in 1977.

He spent much of his early life in the Episcopal Church, in which he was an ordained deacon and priest. He joined a splinter group, the United Episcopal Church, in the early 1980s and served as the church’s presiding bishop from 1989 to 1992.

In 1992, he was the presidential running mate of conservative activist Howard Phillips for the U.S. Taxpayers Party, which among other things advocated drastic reductions in spending, eliminating the income tax and withdrawing from the United Nations. They garnered more than 40,000 votes nationally.

His first wife, Lucile Stice Knight, whom he married in 1949, died in 1969. A son from his first marriage, Kenneth Knight, died in 1995. A stepson, Richard Price, died in 1984.