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Announced: February 8, 1968 Lost election: November 5, 1968. Headquarters. Montgomery, Alabama. Slogan. Stand Up for America. Former Governor of Alabama George Wallace ran in the 1968 United States presidential election as the candidate for the American Independent Party against Richard Nixon and Hubert Humphrey.
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- 1968 United States presidential election
May 7, 2024 · While Wallace never achieved national office, many political analysts consider his presidential campaign to have been highly influential within American politics. Many (including Wallace himself) claimed that populist U.S. presidencies with anti-Washington leanings—such as those of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan —were helped by ideas made ...
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The George Wallace 1968 presidential campaign carried five states, all in the South: Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, and, of course, Alabama, for a total of 46 Electoral votes against Humphrey-Muskie’s 191 and Nixon-Agnew’s 301.
' George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire. 1968 Campaign. Share: For Americans, the world seemed to turn upside down in 1968. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated in April. In...
Wallace for President. George Wallace's political career included four bids for the presidency of the United States. In 1964, 1972, and 1976 he ran as a Democrat, failing three times to...
George C. Wallace was a powerful loser. Running as an independent, Wallace came in a distant third in the 1968 presidential election. But it was still much closer than expected. Wallace was scorned and repudiated by many mainstream voters, but he appealed to a critical wedge of the electorate.
Aug 16, 2018 · Wallace’s campaign – which self-destructed by November, 1968 – was rooted in its peculiar place in time, as America struggled with the traumas of Vietnam and growing unrest at home. But it...
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