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Wallace, George: George Wallace
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George Corley Wallace was born to George C. and Mozell (Smith) Wallace at Clio, Alabama, on August 25, 1919. A farmer's son, Wallace and his brothers Jack and Gerald and his sister Marianne attended local schools and helped out on the farm. In 1936, while attending Barbour County High School, Wallace won the state Golden Gloves bantamweight championship and held the title for the following year. He was ... quite active with the high school football team until his graduation in 1937. Wallace enrolled in the University of Alabama Law School in 1937, the same year his father died, leaving the family with limited financial resources. Wallace worked his way through law school by boxing professionally, waiting on tables, serving as a kitchen helper and driving a taxi.
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George Corley Wallace was born on August 25, 1919, in Clio, Alabama, the eldest child of George C. Wallace, Sr. and Mozelle (Smith) Wallace. George Wallace, Sr. was a farmer, and his earnings were sometimes meager. Consequently, George Jr. often worked at odd jobs to supplement the family's income. Following his graduation from Barbour County High School in 1937, Wallace enrolled at the University of Alabama to study law. After the death of his father in November 1937, he had to work several jobs in order to remain in school. In 1942, he graduated from the University of Alabama with a degree in law, but was unable to find a position in his field.
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Five weeks after the death of his first wife, George Wallace is back on the presidential campaign trail. Richard Nixon is elected president in 1968, but Wallace manages to garner 10 million votes. In 1970, Wallace re-gains the governor's office, winning a nasty campaign. Days before his inauguration, Wallace marries second wife Cornelia. In a complete turnaround, Wallace announces he has always been a moderate, and no longer believes in racial segregation. The IRS begins an investigation of Wallace's financial affairs.
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Nixon ... sicced the IRS on the Wallace family May 1971 Gerald Wallace, George's brother, was being investigated for feeding political kickbacks to Geo through Gerald's law firm. Nixon was in Alabama that month and invited George Wallace to accompany him on plane trip Mobile to Birmingham There are no tape transcripts of the chit-chat on the flight but Wallace agreed to run in 1972 as a Democrat and not as an independent Not long afterward the tax case on Gerald Wallace was halted and lo! Wallace announced he would run for President as a Democrat Nixon's Muskienoia Senator Ed Muskie of Maine of course was the real "danger" to Nixon as polls in '71 showed the popular Muskie would beat Nixon in 1972 but Attorney General John Mitchell said at the time that in a race between Muskie, Nix and Wallace if only Wallace could be snuffed from the race 4/5's of the Wallace votes would go to Nix You can go to the article on the Woodstock Journal website " The Sabotage of the Campaign of Senator Edmund Muskie" to trace how Nixon hounded Muskie beginning n 1971 and into '72 so that he left the 1972 Presidential race] September 1971 A young human from Milwaukee named Arthur Bremer bought an blue Rambler for $800 half his income for 1970 Around October o' 1971 Nixon's henchmen paid for a campaign in California to try to purge American Independent Party voter lists in California so that the AIP wouldn't have enough voters to get on the California ballot in 1972 California law required a party's registration to exceed 1/15th of total state registration to qualify for the ballot. The deadline for re-registering AIP California registrants was 1-1-72. The scheme didn't work, but it showed Nixon's determination to wreck fair democracy (the Washington Post ran a piece on the drive in October of 1972) Nixon's Ongoing Wallacenoia Wallace, as we have seen, promised Nixon he'd run as a Democrat in '72 but what if Wallace, losing the spring Democratic primaries, decided after all to run as an independent? That might sink Nix During the Democratic Primaries o' 1972 Wallace won several, did well in others & henchmen of Nix were fully aware that the racist populist from Alabama was "still keeping his third party options open" March 1972 Wallace won the Florida Democratic primary 42 percent Humphrey 18.6 percent Henry Jackson 13 Muskie 8.9 Lindsay 7 percent McGovern 6.2 percent April 4, 1972 Wisconsin primary George McGovern 30 percent Wallace 22 percent Humphrey 21 percent Muskie 10 percent Another Loathsome Robo-Diary Similar to Sirhan Sirhan's) April 5 The human named Arthur Bremer kept a diary.
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Richard Nixon is elected president in 1968, but George Wallace still manages to garner 10 million votes. He nearly achieves his goal of deadlocking the election, infuriating the new president. Wallace's issues-and his large, vocal minority--are not about to go away. Wallace has shrewdly predicted the shifts American politics in the 1960s, and he can afford to bide his time. He returns to Montgomery and his family, and begins his run for the presidency in 1972. He ... courts a new wife, Cornelia, niece of former governor Jim Folsom.
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As the governor of Alabama and a presidential aspirant, George Corley Wallace did battle with the civil rights movement and defied federal efforts to desegregate schools in his state. His fight against school integration pitted him against federal courts, troops, and the administration of President John F. Kennedy in a showdown over federal authority. Only the pressure of the Alabama National Guard, which Kennedy took command of in June 1963, managed to remove Wallace from the door of the University of Alabama, where he stood blocking the admission of two African American students. His schoolhouse stand, as it came to be known, lionized Wallace in the hearts and minds of southerners and helped launch an increasingly successful national political career. While scoring victories in the 1972 Democratic presidential primaries, he was left partially paralyzed by gunshots from a would-be assassin—an incident that precipitated a political metamorphosis in Wallace. Though he failed to gain the presidency, he continued to serve the state of Alabama until 1987, when poor health forced him to leave the office after four terms and seventeen-and-a-half years.
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