{"id":2054,"date":"2012-10-12T13:45:46","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T20:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2054"},"modified":"2012-10-12T13:45:46","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T20:45:46","slug":"wallace-george-corley-1919","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=2054","title":{"rendered":"WALLACE, GEORGE CORLEY, 1919-1998."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Attorney;\u00a0 45th governor of Alabama; presidential candidate. Born&#8211; August 25, 1919, in Clio, Ala. Parents&#8211; George C. and Mozell (Smith) Wallace. Married&#8211; Lurleen Burns, May 23, 1943. Children&#8211; Four. Married&#8211; Cornelia Ellis Snively, June 4, 1971. Married&#8211; Lisa Taylor, September, 1981. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, LL.B., 1942. Admitted to Alabama bar, 1942. U.S. Air Force, 1942-1945. Assistant Attorney General, Alabama, 1946-1947; member Alabama Legislature, 1947-1953; judge 3rd Judicial District of Alabama, 1953-1958; private practice, Clayton, 1958-1962; Governor, 1963-1967, 1971-1979, 1983-1987. Independent Party candidate for U.S. President, 1968. Shot while campaigning for presidential nomination, 1972. Died September 13,1998.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in the South and Southwest; Who&#8217;s Who in America.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hear Me Out. Anderson, S.C.; Droke House, 1968.<\/p>\n<p>Stand Up for Alabama. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, 1976.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Papers; <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Papers of George Wallace&#8217;s service as governor of Alabama are held at the State Archives in Montgomery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Attorney;\u00a0 45th governor of Alabama; presidential candidate. Born&#8211; August 25, 1919, in Clio, Ala. Parents&#8211; George C. and Mozell (Smith) Wallace. Married&#8211; Lurleen Burns, May 23, 1943. Children&#8211; Four. Married&#8211; Cornelia Ellis Snively, June 4, 1971. Married&#8211; Lisa Taylor, September, 1981. Education&#8211; University of Alabama, LL.B., 1942. Admitted to Alabama bar, 1942. U.S. Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-w-z"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}