George Wallace was the 45th Governor of Alabama,
a position he occupied for four terms.
June 1963
May 1972
George Corley Wallace Jr.
(August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998)
In his later years, Wallace suffered from deafness and
Parkinson’s disease. He died of septic shock from a
bacterial infection in Jackson Hospital in Montgomery
on September 13, 1998. He suffered from respiratory
problems in addition to complications from his gunshot
spinal injury.
