George Wallace
45th Governor of Alabama (1919-1998) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 79
George Corley Wallace Jr. was an American politician and lawyer who was the 45th and longest-serving governor of Alabama, and the longest-serving governor from the Democratic Party.
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Wallace was born in Clio, Alabama (seen here in 2011).
From left to right: Governor Wallace, NASA administrator James E. Webb and scientist Wernher von Braun at the Marshall Space Flight Center in 1965
Wallace standing against desegregation while being confronted by U.S. Deputy Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach at the University of Alabama in 1963
Wallace addressing an audience at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey
Wallace announcing his Presidential run in 1968
Official portrait, c. 1970
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Wallace unsuccessfully sought the United States presidency as a Democrat three times, and once with the American Independent Party, in which he carried five states in the 1968 presidential election resulting in a rare moment not seen since 1948 presidential elections where a third party managed to secure electoral seats independent of the de-facto 'two party system' of United States.
