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Wallace, George (Corley)
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| US state governor, born in Clio, Alabama, USA. He studied law at the University of Alabama, became a Democratic assistant attorney general in Alabama (1946–7), and served in the legislature (1947–53). Elected a state circuit judge (1953–9) he defied the US Civil Rights Commission with his segregationist rulings. After returning to private practice, he became Alabama's governor (1963–7) proclaiming ‘segregation forever’. Succeeded as governor by his wife Lurleen, he ran in 1968 for president on the American Independent Party Ticket. In 1972, while campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, he was shot and paralysed, thus ending his national political ambitions. He served three more terms as governor (1971–9, 1983–7), mostly in a wheelchair. He always insisted he was not a racist, and in later years did in fact align himself with a more liberal agenda and civil rights leaders. |
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