George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919–September 13, 1998), was a governor of Alabama for four terms; 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. "The most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher, he ran for US president four times, running officially as a Democrat three times and in the American Independent Party once. A 1972 assassination attempt left him wheel chair-bound. He is ...
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George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919–September 13, 1998), was a governor of Alabama for four terms; 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. "The most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher, he ran for US president four times, running officially as a Democrat three times and in the American Independent Party once. A 1972 assassination attempt left him wheel chair-bound. He is best known for his Southern populist pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period, convictions he renounced later in life.
The first of four children, Wallace was a native of Barbour County, Alabama. He was born in the town of Clio, in rural southeast Alabama, to George Corley Wallace and Mozell Smith Wallace. He was the third of four generations to use the name George Wallace, but as neither parent liked the name "Junior", he was called George C. to distinguish him from his father, George, and his grandfather, Dr....
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