George Wallace, Jr.

George Corley Wallace III, generally known as George Wallace Jr., (born October 17, 1951) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Alabama. He is the only son of George and Lurleen Wallace, each of whom was Democratic governor of Alabama. Personal life Wallace was born in Eufaula in Barbour County in southeastern Alabama as the only son of George and Lurleen Wallace, future governors of Alabama. His sisters are Bobbi Jo Wallace Parsons, Peggy Sue Wallace Kennedy, and Janie Lee Wallace Dye. His father was a noted segregationist who ran for President of the United States on four occasions. His mother succeeded her husband as governor following his first term, and served as a surrogate for him until her death from uterine cancer in 1968. Wallace lived in the Alabama Governor's Mansion in Montgomery during his parents' terms as governor from 1963 to 1968, after which he lived with relatives. In the seventh grade, he was clipped playing football and sustained an injury for which he was hospitalized. He graduated in 1970 from Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery, completed a bachelor's degree in history at Huntingdon College in Montgomery in 1976, and did graduate work in political science and public administration at Auburn University in Auburn. Wallace had two sons from his second marriage: George Corley Wallace IV and Robert Kelly Wallace. Wallace IV died on May 12, 2009, at the age of twenty-five, from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Beforehand, he married for less than a year to an unknown woman. In June 1990, he married Angela Dawn Shoemaker, only to be divorced again in less than 11 months. In 2000, Wallace Jr. married Elizabeth Grimes Maynor and now has two stepdaughters.