George Corley Wallace, Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998) was an American
politician and the 45th
Governor of
Alabama, having served
two nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms as a
Democrat: 1963–1967, 1971–1979 and 1983–1987. Wallace has the third longest gubernatorial tenure in post-Constitutional U.S. history, at 16 years and four days. He was a U.S. Presidential candidate for four consecutive elections, in which he sought the Democratic Party nomination in 1964, 1972, and 1976, and was the
American Independent Party candidate in the
1968 presidential election in which he remains the last third party candidate to receive a state's electoral college votes.