Governor+George+Wallace

**Governor George Wallace [[image:Wallacenasa-drop.gif caption="Governor George Wallace"]]**

 * George Corley Wallace Jr.** (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was a Governor of Alabama for three terms; 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. He ran for U.S. President four times, running officially as a Democrat three times and in the American Independent Party once. He is best known for his Southern populist pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period, convictions he abandoned later in life.Wallace died of septic shock from a bacterial infection in Jackson Hospital in Montgomery on September 13, 1998. He suffered from Parkinson's disease and respiratory problems in addition to complications from his gun-shot spinal injury.

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