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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. Wallace's pro- segregation policies during his term as Governor of Alabama were rejected by most.
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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.
About a month before the election, polls showed that as much as 23 percent of the electorate supported George Wallace for president. But Wallace’s choice of vice-presidential running mate...
May 12, 2022 · The governor of Alabama and an ardent segregationist, George Wallace was in Laurel, Maryland, campaigning to become the Democratic nominee for president. He fired up the crowd by railing...
- Diane Bernard
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.
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 receive the party's...
