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'''George Wallace''' (August 25, 1919 - September 13, 1998) was a pro-[[segregation]]ist governor of [[Alabama]]. He gained national attention by "standing in the schoolhouse door" to stop the integration of Alabama schools (then he stepped aside). He ran unsuccessfully for [[President of the United States]] four times, three times seeking the [[Democrat Party]] nomination, (1964, 1972, 1976), and once running as an independent (1968). He carried blue collar white Southerners and rural white Southerners in the [[United States presidential election, 1968]], but his appeal to blue collar northern Democrats was blunted by labor unions who vehemently attacked him as a dangerous and reckless racist demagogue.
'''George Wallace''' (August 25, 1919 - September 13, 1998) was a pro-[[segregation]]ist governor of [[Alabama]]. He gained national attention by "standing in the schoolhouse door" to stop the integration of Alabama schools (then he stepped aside). He ran unsuccessfully for [[President of the United States]] four times, three times seeking the [[Democrat Party]] nomination, (1964, 1972, 1976), and once running as an independent (1968). He carried blue collar white Southerners and rural white Southerners in the [[United States presidential election, 1968]], but his appeal to blue collar northern Democrats was blunted by labor unions who vehemently attacked him as a dangerous and reckless racist demagogue.
==Early life==
==Early life and career==
Wallace was born in Clio, in Barbour County, Alabama, on August 25, 1919.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8H-iCQAAQBAJ&pg=RA4-PA397 Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History]</ref>
Wallace was born in Clio, in Barbour County, Alabama, on August 25, 1919.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8H-iCQAAQBAJ&pg=RA4-PA397 Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History]</ref>
In his first run for governor, in 1958, he ran as a Democrat — and lost — as a [[moderate]], supported by the [[NAACP]]. Four years later, he ran again as a Democrat — and won — with the vow, “segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever.”<ref>https://www.nysun.com/editorials/bidens-way-off-base-on-trump-and-george-wallace/90787/
==Later life==
==Later life==