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About George Wallace
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 unsuccessfully 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, Wallace opposed desegregation and supported the policies of "Jim Crow" during the Civil Rights Movement, declaring in his 1963 inaugural address that he stood for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever."
Everything about George Wallace →- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, boxer, judge
- Position held
- Governor of Alabama, Governor of Alabama, Governor of Alabama, member of the Alabama House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 25, 1919
- Died
- September 13, 1998