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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. Wallace unsuccessf
Official portrait, 1962
Wallace was born in Clio, Alabama (seen here in 2011).
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
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 5, 1968. The Republican ticket of former Vice President Richard Nixon and Maryland governor Spiro Agnew defeated the Democratic ticket
George Wallace
…sought the presidential nomination 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 the 1948 presidential election where a third party managed to secure electoral seats independent of the…
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Hubert Humphrey in New York, 1968
George Wallace
Lyndon B. Johnson, the incumbent president in 1968, whose second and only full term expired at noon on January 20, 1969