George Wallace
Politician
1919 – 1998
Who was George Wallace?
George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician and the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a Democrat: 1963โ1967, 1971โ1979 and 1983โ1987. Wallace has the third longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history at 5,848 days. After four runs for U.S. President, he earned the title "the most influential loser" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher.
A 1972 assassination attempt left Wallace paralyzed, and he used a wheelchair for the remainder of his life. He is remembered for his Southern populist and segregationist attitudes during the mid-20th century period of the African-American civil rights movement and activism, which gained passage of federal civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s to enforce constitutional rights for all citizens. He eventually renounced segregationism but remained a populist.
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- Born
- Aug 25, 1919
Clio - Also known as
- George Corley Wallace
- George Corley Wallace Jr.
- George C. Wallace
- Governor George C. Wallace
- The Barbour Bantam
- Parents
- Spouses
- Cornelia Wallace
(1971/01/04 - 1978/01/04) - Lurleen Wallace
(1943/05/21 - 1968/05/07)
- Cornelia Wallace
- Children
- Religion
- Born again
- Baptists
- Methodism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Alabama
- University of Alabama School of Law
- Died
- Sep 13, 1998
Montgomery - Resting place
- Greenwood Cemetery
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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