Description:Chapters: George Wallace, Martha Reeves, Katherine Jackson, Don Sutton, Jean Sasson, George Wallace, Jr., Ariosto A. Wiley, Travis Grant, Ann Lowe, Eli Sims Shorter, Edward Bullock, Walter Reeves, David Hill. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 62. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 September 13, 1998), was the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 19631967, 19711979 and 19831987. "The most influential defeated candidate" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher, he ran for U.S. president four times, running officially as a Democrat three times and in the American Independent Party once. A 1972 assassination attempt left him paralyzed and a wheelchair user for the remainder of his life. He is best known for his Southern populist, pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period, convictions he renounced later in life. The first of four children, Wallace was a native of Barbour County, Alabama. He was born in the town of Clio, in rural southeast Alabama, to George Corley Wallace and Mozell Smith Wallace. He was the third of four generations to have the name George Wallace, but as neither parent liked the name "Junior," he was called George C. to distinguish him from his father, George, and his grandfather, Dr. Wallace. Wallace's father had dropped out of college to pursue a life of farming when prices were high during World War I; Mozell had to sell their farmland to pay existing mortgages when George Sr. died in 1937. Wallace was fascinated with politics from the age of 10, winning a contest to serve as a page for the Alabama Senate in 1935 and confidently predicting that he would one day be governor. Wallace became a regionally successful boxer in high school, then went...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=25989We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Barbour County, Alabama: George Wallace, Martha Reeves, Katherine Jackson, Don Sutton, Jean Sasson, George Wallace, JR.. To get started finding People from Barbour County, Alabama: George Wallace, Martha Reeves, Katherine Jackson, Don Sutton, Jean Sasson, George Wallace, JR., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
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64
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Books LLC
Release
2010
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1155856384
People from Barbour County, Alabama: George Wallace, Martha Reeves, Katherine Jackson, Don Sutton, Jean Sasson, George Wallace, JR.
Description: Chapters: George Wallace, Martha Reeves, Katherine Jackson, Don Sutton, Jean Sasson, George Wallace, Jr., Ariosto A. Wiley, Travis Grant, Ann Lowe, Eli Sims Shorter, Edward Bullock, Walter Reeves, David Hill. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 62. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 September 13, 1998), was the 45th Governor of Alabama, serving four terms: 19631967, 19711979 and 19831987. "The most influential defeated candidate" in 20th-century U.S. politics, according to biographers Dan T. Carter and Stephan Lesher, he ran for U.S. president four times, running officially as a Democrat three times and in the American Independent Party once. A 1972 assassination attempt left him paralyzed and a wheelchair user for the remainder of his life. He is best known for his Southern populist, pro-segregation attitudes during the American desegregation period, convictions he renounced later in life. The first of four children, Wallace was a native of Barbour County, Alabama. He was born in the town of Clio, in rural southeast Alabama, to George Corley Wallace and Mozell Smith Wallace. He was the third of four generations to have the name George Wallace, but as neither parent liked the name "Junior," he was called George C. to distinguish him from his father, George, and his grandfather, Dr. Wallace. Wallace's father had dropped out of college to pursue a life of farming when prices were high during World War I; Mozell had to sell their farmland to pay existing mortgages when George Sr. died in 1937. Wallace was fascinated with politics from the age of 10, winning a contest to serve as a page for the Alabama Senate in 1935 and confidently predicting that he would one day be governor. Wallace became a regionally successful boxer in high school, then went...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=25989We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Barbour County, Alabama: George Wallace, Martha Reeves, Katherine Jackson, Don Sutton, Jean Sasson, George Wallace, JR.. To get started finding People from Barbour County, Alabama: George Wallace, Martha Reeves, Katherine Jackson, Don Sutton, Jean Sasson, George Wallace, JR., you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.