George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician who served as the 45th Governor of Alabama for four terms. He is best remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views. He sought the U.S. presidency as a Democrat three times, and once as an American Independent Party candidate, unsuccessfully each time. Wallace is the fourth longest-serving governor in US history, having served 5,848 days in office. He was shot in Maryland by Arthur Bremer, and Wallace remained paralyzed below the waist for the rest of his life.
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George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician who served as the 45th Governor of Alabama for four terms. He is best remembered for his staunch segregationist and populist views. He sought the U.S. presidency as a Democrat three times, and once as an American Independent Party candidate, unsuccessfully each time. Wallace is the fourth longest-serving governor in US history, having served 5,848 days in office. He was shot in Maryland by Arthur Bremer, and Wallace remained paralyzed below the waist for the rest of his life. In the late 1970s, Wallace announced that he became a born-again Christian and moderated his views on race, renouncing his past support for segregation. Wallace was the third of five generations to bear the name \”George Wallace\”. Since his parents disliked the designation ‘Junior’, he was called ‘George C. Wallace’ to distinguish him from his father, George, and his grandfather, a physician. Wallace’s father left college to pursue a life of farming when food prices were high during World War I. His mother had to sell their farmland to pay existing mortgages to pay for mortgages. Wallace became a regionally successful boxer in high school, then went directly to law school in 1937 at the University of Alabama School of Law in Tuscaloosa. He served in the United States Army Air Corps in World War II. During 1945, he received life-threatening spinalitis, but prompt medical attention saved his life with sulfa sulfa drugs. He later trained as a flight engineer with the 468th Bomb crew with B-29 Superfortresses.
Wallace served as a judge in the Alabama House of Representatives and later as a state judge. He died in 2007 at the age of 87, and is survived by his wife, Lurleen Wallace, and their four children. He leaves behind a wife and four adult children, all of whom are still living in the same Alabama town. He also has a son, George Wallace III, who is a former Alabama state senator and served as Alabama’s lieutenant governor. Wallace died in 2011 at age 87. He has a daughter and a son-in-law, both of whom still live in the state. Wallace had a son and a daughter with his second wife, Susan Wallace, who died in 2012 at age 83. Wallace has a grandson, George C.Wallace III, a former state senator, and a great-grandson, George Wallis III. Wallace also had a stepson, Michael Wallace, a current state legislator and former state attorney general. Wallace won election to another term as governor in 1970 and ran in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries, once again campaigning for segregation in the 1968 presidential election. He remains the most recent third-party candidate to receive pledged electoral college votes from any state. In 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. called Wallace \”perhaps the most dangerous racist in America today\”. Wallace was a member of the Delta Delta Chi fraternity. He knew Frank M. Sparks, who became a conservative politician in relation to social issues and race issues.
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