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George C. Wallace
(1919-1998)
Who Was George C. Wallace?
After law school and military service, George C. Wallace embarked on a career as a judge and local politician.
He served four terms as Alabama governor, from the 1960s through the 1980s, and ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. presidency three times. Despite his later efforts to revise his public image, Wallace is remembered for his strong support of racial segregation in the '60s.
He died in Montgomery, Alabama, on September 13, 1998.
Background and Early Life
George Corley Wallace Jr. was born on August 25, 1919, in Clio, Alabama.
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His father, George Corley Sr., was a farmer. His mother, Mozelle Smith Wallace, had been abandoned by her mother and raised in an orphanage in Mobile as a young girl.
Wallace took up boxing as a boy, and won two Golden Gloves state titles while he was a student at Barbour County High School.
When he was 15 years old, he served as a legislative page at the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery.