former Alabama governor and U.S. presidential candidate George Wallace. By 1972, Wallace’s image was fixed in most Americans’ minds as the face of the white South’s violent response to the ...

George Wallace's political career included four bids for the presidency of the United States. In 1964, 1972, and 1976 he ran as a Democrat, failing three times to receive the party's nomination.

George Wallace angrily announced that he would personally ... Nixon did not want Wallace to make another third-party bid for the presidency in 1972, and evidence of corruption would give him ...