George Wallace

See also: George Wallace (homonymy), Wallace

George Corley Wallace (August 25th 1919 - September 13rd 1998) was a American Politician , member of the Democratic party, in favor of the racial segregation, governor with four resumptions of the Alabama and candidate for four recoveries also with the presidential election.

Family and studies

George Wallace was born with Clio, in the Alabama, on August 25th, 1919.
Graduate in right in 1942, it is enlisted in the US Air Force and takes part in the Guerre of the Pacific during the Second world war. Sergeant, it is useful under the orders of the general Curtis LeMay, his future candidate with the vice-presidency in 1968.
It is at that time that it misses dying of a cerebral fever which will deprive it partially of its hearing and will leave him neurological after-effects.

Beginning of political career

In May 1946, it is elected with the room of the representatives of the State d' Alabama. It is at the time a liberal progressist of the democratic party.

With the democratic convention of 1948, he refuses to make secession behind Strom Thurmond and to support the Dixiecrat S against Harry Truman although he is opposed to this last on his program of civic rights (in 1963, he will excuse himself not to have supported Thurmond).

In 1953, it is elected judge of the third circuit. In 1958, it is presented for the post of governor of Alabama, supported by NAACP, the organization for the advance of the coloured persons, but it is beaten with the democratic primary educations by John Patterson, this last being supported by the Ku Klux Klan. At that time, the democratic primary educations constitute the true election of the governor, because of credible inexistence of opposition at the time of the election générale.
Wallace, counterirritated by his defeat, then adopts a hard line on the racial segregation and courts the vote of the most racist white.

In 1962, it is by a tidal wave that he is elected governor of Alabama on a program ultra-segregationist and anti-federal.

Governor of Alabama (1963 - 1967)

The June 11th 1963, with its partisans it is in front of the University of Alabama to prevent the die segregation of the institution and the entry in the course of the first two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood which is framed and protected by the National guard, federal Marshall and the prosecutor of the state. It is under the hootings that the two pupils will enter the université.
It is this same year that an murder attempt aims at the church Baptist of Birmingham (Alabama) killing four black little girls. Wallace is made responsible for the atmosphere of hatred which reigns in the state and Martin Luther King invites it personally to show it to have the blood of these children on its hands.

Presidential ambition in 1964

In 1964, in spite of the image which it gives of Alabama, it is presented to the democratic primary educations at the time of the presidential election. It is then the main competitor of the president Lyndon Johnson in the democratic camp and gains notable successes in several states of other areas like the Wisconsin, the Maryland and the Indiana, with 1/3 of the votes expressed in its favor.

The governor by procuration (1967 - 1968)

The constitution of Alabama preventing it from arising for a new mandate, George Wallace makes introduce his wife, Lurleen Wallace, at the post of governor. And it is it which gain the elections of 1966 and him which continues in the facts of controlling.

But in 1968, she dies and it is the vice-governor, Albert Brewer, which replaces it with the full powerss of governor.

The candidate of the " American Independent Party" (1968)

In 1968, Wallace decides to represent himself with presidential but refuses to pass by the democratic primary educations which will be unfavourable for him. He is presented then in the form of a candidate of the new American party independent (American Independent Party - AIP) with Curtis LeMay like fellow candidate to the station of vice-president.

Wallace hoped to receive sufficient votes to prevent the candidate of one of the two great parties to have the absolute majority of the Great Electors and to thus oblige to resort to a vote of the Chambre of the Representatives of the United States. He hoped thus that with the Congress, the South would obtain sufficient concessions to reconsider the federal policy favorable to desegregation in exchange of the election of one of the candidates.

Wallace managed to obtain at the time of the election the majority in five States of the South but however, Richard Nixon was elected with the absolute majority of the voices of the Great Electors.

Governor of Alabama (1971 - 1979)

In 1970, George Wallace is again elected governor of Alabama against the democratic governor outgoing Albert Brewer supported by president Richard Nixon.

At that time, George Wallace is the seventh personality most admired American right in front of the Pape Paul VI.

Candidate with presidential of 1972

In 1972, he is again candidate with the presidential election and agrees to take part in the democratic primary educations where he has like adversary in particular George McGovern and Hubert Humphrey.
With the primary educations of Florida, Wallace gains 42% of the votes and the totality of the counties of the State.

But it is in Maryland, in full shift in the county of Laurel, which it is victim of an attempted murder. Arthur Hermann Bremer draws to him above with four recoveries and lack to kill it whereas three other people are touched. The investigation will show that the motivations of Bremer were not political and that it was right in search of notoriety.

The attempted murder will leave paralyzed Wallace. It profited at the time of a general dash from sympathy in the country what will enable him to gain the primary educations of Maryland, of the Michigan, the Tennessee, and from North Carolina. It will have to be however inclined in front of the progressist George McGovern.

During his convalescence, the lieutenant governor, Jere Beasley, replaced it as governor of the June 5th to the July 7th 1972.

At the summer 1972, it is in wheelchair that George Wallace intervened with the democratic convention which take place with Miami. McGovern will be rolled in November by president Nixon, winner in 49 of the 50 States.

In 1974, Wallace is re-elected governor (the Constitution having been modified).

Candidate with the presidential election of 1976

In November 1975, Wallace is presented once again to the presidency and takes part in the democratic primary educations. Its failing health and its handicap do not enable him to gain sufficient votes and it gives up after several failures in the States of the South in front of the governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, of which it will end up endorsing the candidature.

Born-Again Christian

At the end of the Years 1970, Wallace becomes a born-again Christian, i.e. a Christian which reappears with the faith.

He is sorry to have supported the segregation with the black leaders of the organizations of the civic rights. He then states to seek the love and forgiveness.

Governor of Alabama (1983 - 1987)

It is under its last mandate of governor of Alabama that many Blacks of the state will reach stations with high responsibility in the administration for the State.

It withdraws political life in 1987 because of health issues.

George Wallace died in 1998 with Montgomery, Alabama.

Its marriages

George Wallace remarié himself twice after the death of his wife in 1968.

In 1971, it marries Cornelia Ellis Snively, niece of the former governor James Folsom (" Big Jim"). They divorce in 1978.

In 1981, Wallace marries LISA Taylor from which it will separate in 1987.

Quotations

" segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever. "

George Wallace - inaugural speech of its first mandate of governor of Alabama in 1963

" The average man in Africa gold Asia doesn' T even know where He is, let alone where Alabama is. " - Declaration of George Wallace in 1963 after the murder attempt of Birmingham (Alabama)
" I was killing fascists when you punks were in diapers . " - " You shout furnace letter words At me, well, I cuts two for you: S-O-A-P and W-O-R-K ." George Wallace addressing himself to the Hippie S at the time of the presidential campaign of 1968
" They' Re building has bridge over the Potomac for all the white liberals fleeing to Virginia . " - George Wallace at the time of the presidential campaign of 1968

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