July 7: Confined to a wheelchair, Wallace is released from the hospital and speaks at the Democratic National Convention in Miami. George McGovern is chosen as the Democratic nominee for president.

George C. Wallace was a big part of my early exposure ... that gave him personal comfort as he lived out his life in a wheelchair. After he left the governor’s office in 1987, he lived just ...

He is the third governor of a U.S. state to use a wheelchair, along with Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York and George Wallace of Alabama. On Tuesday, Crockett posted on X, formerly Twitter ...