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10 hours ago · Wallace ran for president in the 1968 election as the American Independent Party candidate, with Curtis LeMay as his candidate for vice president. Wallace hoped to force the House of Representatives to decide the election with one vote per state if he could obtain sufficient electoral votes to make him a power broker.
1 day ago · The Republican nominee, former vice president Richard Nixon, defeated both the Democratic nominee, incumbent vice president Hubert Humphrey, and the American Independent Party nominee, former Alabama governor George Wallace. This was the last election until 1988 in which the incumbent president was not on the ballot.
2 days ago · Kennedy gained support from the poor, Catholics, African Americans, Hispanic Americans, and other racial and ethnic minorities. Conservative "Dixiecrats" tended to support either Humphrey or former Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, who was running in a third-party campaign for the general election.
2 days ago · When a president did step aside: LBJ and 1968. ... general election was close, with independent George Wallace a key factor. ... the first presidential debate of the 1976 presidential election in ...
4 days ago · George Wallace, governor of Alabama, ran for president on an independent party ticket in 1968. He supported segregation and is best known for standing in the doorway of the University of Alabama to prevent African American students from entering.
Jun 20, 2024 · The election saw a three-way race between Republican nominee Richard Nixon, Democratic nominee Hubert Humphrey, and independent candidate George Wallace. The election was also a reflection of the deep divisions in American society at the time, as the country grappled with the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, and the rise of the ...
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Jun 12, 2024 · Poor People’s Campaign, political campaign that culminated in a demonstration held in Washington, D.C., in 1968, in which participants demanded that the government formulate a plan to help redress the employment and housing problems of the poor throughout the United States.
