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Auburn University. Occupation. College administrator. George Corley Wallace III, generally known as George Wallace Jr., (born October 17, 1951) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Alabama. He is the only son of George and Lurleen Wallace, each of whom was Democratic governor of Alabama .
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Feb 10, 2021 · Published 11:16 AM PDT, February 10, 2021. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The son of former Alabama Gov. George Wallace on Wednesday criticized a move to strip his father’s name from a campus building over his support of racial segregation. George Wallace Jr. said the recent decision by trustees at the University of Alabama at Birmingham reflected ...
May 12, 2022 · HISTORY. How a Failed Assassination Attempt Pushed George Wallace to Reconsider His Segregationist Views. Fifty years ago, a fame-seeker shot the polarizing politician five times, paralyzing...
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- Who Was George C. Wallace?
- Background and Early Life
- Military Service and Local Government
- Governor of Alabama
- Presidential Campaigns
- Later Life and Death
After law school and military service, George C. Wallace embarked on a career as a judge and local politician. He served four terms as Alabama governor, from the 1960s through the 1980s, and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. presidency three times. Despite his later efforts to revise his public image, Wallace is remembered for his strong support of r...
George Corley Wallace Jr. was born on August 25, 1919, in Clio, Alabama. His father, George Corley Sr., was a farmer. His mother, Mozelle Smith Wallace, had been abandoned by her mother and raised in an orphanage in Mobile as a young girl. Wallace took up boxing as a boy, and won two Golden Gloves state titles while he was a student at Barbour Coun...
After graduating from law school, Wallace entered the U.S. Army Air Corps and served during World War II. He flew multiple bombing missions over Japan in 1945, and was later discharged with a medical disability. Returning to Alabama, Wallace reunited with his wife, Lurleen (née Burns), whom he'd married in 1943. Deciding to enter local law and poli...
Meanwhile, Wallace was making plans to run for the governorship of his home state. He lost at his first attempt, in 1958. In 1962, when he ran again on a platform of racial segregation and states' rights and was backed by the Ku Klux Klan, he won the election. His inaugural speech concluded with the infamous line, "Segregation now, segregation tomo...
Wallace also harbored presidential aspirations. In 1968, he ran as an Independent candidate, supported mainly by white, working-class Southerners. In his 1972 campaign, however, he ran as a Democrat. While on the campaign trail in Maryland later that year, Wallace was shot by a would-be assassin named Arthur Bremer. His injuries left him permanentl...
From the late 1970s onward, Wallace attempted to revise his public image by modifying his previous position on race issues. He claimed that many of his statements had been misunderstood, and he emphasized his populist leanings. In some cases, he issued public apologies for his earlier actions. By the time of his fourth term as Alabama governor, he'...
Former Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama, who built his political career on segregation and spent a tormented retirement arguing that he was not a racist in his heart, died last night in...
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The writings contained herein will reveal for the first time, from a familiy perspective, the real George Wallace, not the myth that has grown up around the legend. — George Wallace Jr. BUY NOW. In his final campaign for Alabama Governor, George Wallace received 90% of the black vote.
May 15, 2022 · George Wallace Jr. This is a guest opinion column. Fifty years ago, on May 15, 1972, I was a student at the University of Alabama and in my Tuscaloosa apartment when a “Special Report” on the...
