George Wallace would be the power behind the throne. Lurleen Wallace died of cancer halfway through her term. Wallace made a third-party run for the presidency in 1968, winning five states in the ...

George Wallace's political career included four bids for the presidency of the United States. In 1964, 1972, and 1976 he ran as a Democrat, failing three times to receive the party's nomination.

First, Wallace’s American Independent party had to get on the ballot ... polls showed that as much as 23 percent of the electorate supported George Wallace for president. But Wallace’s ...

August 25: George Corley Wallace is born in Clio ... in their walkout once the party adopted a civil rights platform. Later, in his 1963 gubernatorial inauguration, he excused this action on ...

For those who are not familiar with or do not remember when George C. Wallace was the Governor of the State of Alabama, let ...

The man convicted of shooting former Alabama governor George Wallace officially completed his prison sentence Thursday on the 53rd anniversary of the assassination attempt. During a presidential ...