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  King Encyclopedia
George Corley Wallace was born on 25 August 1919 in Clio, Alabama.
Wallace’s position on civil rights and his anti-Washington rhetoric appealed not only to southern segregationists, but also to voters in other parts of the country.
Wallace died in Montgomery on 13 September 1998 at the age of 79.
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 George Wallace
Wallace died of respiratory and cardiac arrest at 9:49 p.m., said Dana Beyerly, a spokeswoman for Jackson Hospital in Montgomery.
Wallace was the first major political figure in his generation to exploit the antipathy toward Washington that went on to be a prime force in politics from coast to coast.
But George Wallace was a creature of the storm who always had wind beneath his wings, and that wind was the adoration of the white farmers and factory workers and rural courthouse bosses who counted the votes and doled out patronage.
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 George Wallace, American Independent Party, 1968
Wallace first campaigned to be Alabama's governor in 1958, and lost to a KKK-endorsed candidate.
Wallace not only refused to enforce the federal demand, but he (along with several armed state national guardsmen; see photo above) literally blocked the path of two fl students, James A. Hood and Vivian J. Malone, who were attempting to register for classes at the state university.
If nothing else, Wallace, who died in September 1998, is a classic example of a third party candidate who dared to buck accepted trends, only to have his attitude and agenda adopted (coopted, some would say) by America's political mainstream.
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 Alabama Governor George Wallace, gubernatorial history
George Corley Wallace was born to George C. and Mozell (Smith) Wallace at Clio, Alabama, on August 25, 1919.
Wallace was elected judge in the Third Judicial Circuit in 1953, a position he held until 1959, During subsequent years he also served the Democratic party in many capacities.
Wallace's final administration was marked by health problems; however, he continued to push for the state's economic stability.
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 George Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wallace rose to the rank of staff sergeant in the 58th Bomb Wing of the Twentieth Air Force.
Wallace said he disagreed with Abraham Lincoln that fls should be able to vote, serve on juries, or hold public office—although he agreed with Lincoln that equality for fls could come with education, uplift, and time.
Wallace died from a bacterial blood infection in Montgomery, Alabama on September 13, 1998.
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 The American Experience | George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire | People & Events | George Wallace
Wallace was born in 1919 to a farming family in the town of Clio.
Wallace's end-run around this obstacle was to have his wife, Lurleen, run for governor in 1966.
Wallace made a third-party run for the presidency in 1968, winning five states in the general election, and then decided to run for governor again.
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 Washingtonpost.com: George Wallace Remembered
Wallace's son, George Wallace Jr., and one of his daughters, Peggy Wallace Kennedy, were at his side when he died.
Wallace was elected governor the first time in 1962, with what was the largest popular vote in state history and with the declaration: "I draw the line in the dust and toss the gauntlet before the feet of tyranny, and I say, segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
George Corley Wallace was born Aug. 25, 1919 in Clio, Ala.
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 wallace
George Benjamin Wallace was born February 16, 1817, in Epsom, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, the son of John Wallace and Mary True.
George returned to Nauvoo saying, "I feel I have done my full duty toward my wife Mary, and toward my God." He could not deny the faith; he had joined the Church completely, but it was tremendously difficult for him to give up his family.
George Benjamin Wallace was appointed captain over fifty in Abraham O. Smoot's company of one hundred, which was organized June 17, 1847, on the west bank of the Horn River.
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 George Corley Wallace Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
George Corley Wallace (1919-1998) was an Alabama governor and a third-party presidential candidate in 1968.
Wallace's program, repeated across the country almost without change, revealed his single-minded concern for property rights and freedom of local and individual decision--which, he warned, were threatened by the Federal bureaucracy.
Wallace died on September 13, 1998, at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, of respiratory and cardiac arrest.
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 CNN - George Wallace dies - September 14, 1998
Wallace died at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery after suffering septic shock from what hospital officials described as an "overwhelming" bacterial blood infection.
Wallace was hospitalized briefly in June and again in July, both times for respiratory aliments.
Wallace, who had been re-elected governor in 1970, continued to run his state from a wheelchair until he left office in 1978.
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 George Wallace
Controversial Southern politician George Wallace was born in Clio, Alabama, into a lower-middle-class family.
Wallace gave in after the state National Guard was federalized.
Wallace holds the record for serving longest as governor of Alabama: 1963-67, 1971-75; 1975-79 and 1983-87.
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 George C. Wallace
George Wallace was educated at the University of Alabama, and having been an assistant attorney general of Alabama, a member of the state legislature, and a district court judge, Wallace was elected as governor, where he served from 1963 to 1967.
Ineligible to succeed himself, his wife, Lurleen Burns Wallace, ran for governor in his place in 1966 and was elected.
Wallace sought the United States presidency in 1968 as a candidate of the American Independent Party, running on antidesegregation issues, respect for law and order, and freedom from excessive federal control.
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 Racism to Redemption: The Path of George Wallace
George Wallace is most often seen as the standard bearer of white opposition to integration in the 1960s.
Wallace graduated from the University of Alabama with a law degree in 1942 and soon after married Lurleen Burns.
In 1952 Wallace was elected a circuit court judge in Clayton.
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 Book rates George Wallace’s ’70 campaign as the nastiest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
For Wallace, the 1970 race was a fight for his political life because if he had lost to Brewer, his former ally, then Wallace wouldn't have had a political stage to mount his campaign for president in 1972.
George Wallace Jr., who was in high school when the campaign started, agreed with Ingram that the race was dirty.
Wallace, who won the runoff and the governor's office — then was crippled by a would-be assassin in the 1972 presidential race — eventually made his peace with the fl leaders he targeted in 1970.
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 George Wallace
George Wallace, the son of a farmer, was born in Clio, Alabama, on 25th August, 1919.
One of the ways that Wallace improved his racist credentials was to recruit Asa Earl Carter as his main speechwriter in the 1962 election.
Wallace continued to resist the demands of John F. Kennedy and the federal government to integrate the Alabama's education system.
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 George Wallace At The FLAMIGO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
By the age of six George Wallace wanted to be a comedian, but knew he first needed an education.
One of Wallace’s ongoing jokes is he plans on calling past audience members in the middle of the night...to let them know they have not won the car.
Wallace is an evolving comedian, which is why you will never see the same show twice.
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 George Wallace
George Wallace: Yes, I say "It is time to make our 180 degree turn." It is like we were always going in the wrong direction.
George Wallace: I got the role because I used to be in the Navy.
George Wallace: I was having lunch with Walter Pidgeon one day while we were making Forbidden Planet, and Richard Rodgers came by the table.
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George Wallace began his adult professional life selling rags to dentists, mechanics, airlines and all others whom he could convince there existed a need for these cloth items.
As his reputation in comedy grew, George Wallace was suggested as a competitor for cable television special "The Big Laff Off." He won over 15 entrants and captured the first prize of $2,000 and club engagements all over the country.
George Wallace has appeared at such clubs as The Comedy Store, Budd Friedman's Improvisation, Catch a Rising Star, and The Punch Line, and is currently selling out concert venues across the country.
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 George Wallace, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This was not Wallace's first interaction with the CCC; he gave speeches to the CCC once in 1998 and twice in 1999.
In the June 6, 2006, Republican primary election, Wallace qualified for the runoff election, which was held on July 18, 2006.
Wallace believes his political career may be over due to the defeat, which was his third major defeat in Alabama state politics.
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 George Wallace - Moviefone
George Corley Wallace was born to George C. and Mozell (Smith) Wallace at Clio,...
In 1947, running as a candidate from Barbour County, George Wallace was...
George Wallace - the staunch segregationist who divided a nation and launched a conservative movement.
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 George C. Wallace
George C. Wallace and Lurleen Wallace are buried at Greenwood cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama.
I have taken particular offense of Wallace's notorious speech related to segregation forever and the fact he was as advocate of segregation, for separation of the races, for separate school systems and separate social institutions for fl and white people.
George C. Wallace and Lurleen Wallace are buried at Gleenwood cemetery in Montgomery, Alabama.
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 Emory Magazine: Spring 1996: George Wallace
"Wallace is repentant, I believe that," says Carter, who is serving as the Pitt Professor of American Institutions at Cambridge University in England for the 1995-96 academic year.
Even though Wallace had an undeniable impact on American neo-conservatism (a 1986 New York Times editorial said Ronald Reagan "sailed into the White House [on the] tide George Wallace discovered"), Carter posits that the governor's biggest influence may have been on the policies and domestic agenda of Richard Nixon.
Richard Nixon manipulated George Wallace to achieve his own political ends, and readers of The Politics of Rage can't help but speculate what political ends Wallace himself might have achieved had he not had to drop his third-party candidacy and if he had not been shot and paralyzed.
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 NPR : Wallace in the Schoolhouse Door
George Wallace blocks the doorway to Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, June 11, 1963.
Morning Edition, June 11, 2003 · Forty years ago today, Alabama Gov. George Wallace stood at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in a symbolic attempt to block two fl students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from enrolling at the school.
Text of Gov. George Wallace's statement at the University of Alabama, June 11, 1963.
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 George Corley Wallace — Infoplease.com
Wallace, George Corley, 1919–98, governor of Alabama (1963–67, 1971–79, 1983–87), b.
George C. Wallace and the founding of Alabama's public two-year colleges.
Legacy of a Healed Hater George Wallace, 1918-1998.(former governor of Alabama, and once an avid segregationist, dies at the age of......
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