George Corley Wallace (1919-1998) was an Alabama governor and a third-party presidential candidate in 1968. Born on Aug. 25, 1919, at Clio, Ala., he studied at the University of Alabama and received his law degree in 1942. That same year he was...

In his youth, George Corley Wallace was a Golden Gloves boxer from Barbour County, Alabama, known as the Barbour Battler. Through the rest of his life, which ended Sunday at age 79, Wallace was credited even by some who opposed his racial politics with...

FOR MOST of his political career George Wallace, four times Governor of Alabama and twice a major contender for the White House, was the living epitomy of the racist Democrat politics of the old south. True, changing realities would later force him to recant,...

Arthur Bremer was a 21-year-old former janitor and busboy when he shot Alabama Gov. George Wallace five times during a presidential campaign stop in 1972 in Maryland.Now 57, Bremer is preparing for life outside prison. He's scheduled to be released in mid-December and could get...

Hillary Rodham Clinton's lead in the early polls may not be that reassuring if history is any guide. Republican hopeful Rudy Giuliani, however, is sitting pretty.For at least three decades, Republicans have been far better than Democrats in early polls at getting behind the candidates...