Born George Wallace, III, on October 17, 1951, in Eufaula, Alabama. He is Alabama Public Service Commissioner, Position 2. October 17 is the 290th (in leap years the 291st) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. ... 1951 (MCMLI) was a common year starting on Monday; see its calendar. ... Eufaula is a city located in Barbour County, Alabama. ...

Personal life

Commissioner Wallace is the son of George C. Wallace Jr. and Lurleen Wallace, both of whom would become Alabama Governor. He is their third child and only son. His sisters are Ms. Bobbi Jo Parsons, Ms. Peggy Sue Kennedy, and Ms. Janie Lee Dye. George Corley Wallace (August 25, 1919–September 13, 1998) was an American politician who was elected Governor of Alabama (as a Democrat) four times (1962, 1970, 1974 and 1982) and ran for U.S. President (in 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976). ... Lurleen Burns Wallace (September 19, 1926–May 7, 1968), born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was the first wife of Alabama Governor George Wallace, and the first (and to date, only) woman to be elected Governor of Alabama. ...

George C. Wallace, IV, and Robert Kelly Wallace are Commissioner Wallace's adult sons. He married the former Elizabeth Grimes Maynor in 2000 and has two step-daughters from this marriage. This article is about the year 2000. ...

In 1970 Wallace graduated from Sidney Lanier High School in Montgomery, Alabama. He then completed a BA in history at Huntingdon College in 1976. He then went on to graduate work in political science and public administration at Auburn University. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Montgomery is the capital of the U.S. state of Alabama. ... Huntingdon College, founded in 1854, is a coeducational liberal arts college in Montgomery, Alabama, USA. The college is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Political science is a social science discipline that deals with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... Public administration is, broadly speaking, the implementation of policy within a state framework. ... Auburn University (AU) is a state university located in Auburn, Alabama in the United States. ...

Professional life

Troy State University

• Director of Financial Aid and Alumni Affairs (1978 – 1982).
• Vice President of Development and Alumni Affairs (1983 – 1987).

Troy University (formerly Troy State University) is a public university located in Troy, Pike County, Alabama and founded in 1887. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Politics

Republican Republican is a term used generally to describe a number of different organisations, principles, or political movements, and/or the persons supporting these. ...

Elective position history

• Two-term Alabama state treasurer (1987 – 1994).
• Two-term Alabama Public Service Commissioner, Place No. 2, (1998 - present).
• June 2005 anounced will run for Lt. Governor of Alabama.

1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... 1998 (MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Controversy

In June 2005 he opened up the first day of the annual national convention of the white supremacist organization the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC). This was not Wallace's first interaction with the CCC. He gave speeches to the CCC once in 1998 and twice in 1999. 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... White supremacy is the variety of white nationalism that believes the white race should rule over other races. ... The Council of Conservative Citizens (abbreviated CCC or CofCC) is an American paleoconservative political organization. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

The CCC was created from the mailing lists of the old White Citizens Councils, which were set up in the 1950s and 1960s to resist efforts to desegregate Southern schools, and which Thurgood Marshall once described as "the uptown Klan." Recently, it has embraced Holocaust deniers and published anti-Semitic articles on its website.

In the audience listening to Wallace (In June 2005), were a number of leading white supremacists. They included Don Black, former Alabama grand dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan and proprietor of Stormfront.org, the most influential hate site on the internet; Jamie Kelso, right-hand man and Louisiana roommate of former Klan leader David Duke; Jared Taylor, editor of the neo-eugenicist American Renaissance magazine; Ed Fields, an aging white supremacist leader from Georgia; Alabama CCC leader Leonard "Flagpole" Wilson, who got his name shouting "Keep Bama white!" from atop a flagpole during University of Alabama race riots in 1956; and the CCC's national leader, St. Louis personal injury lawyer Gordon Baum.

References

• Alabama Public Service page
• Southern Poverty Law page
• Lieutenant Governor run announcement

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