George Wallace stars Gary Sinise as the former Governor of Massachusetts.
 Wallace left office when his first term expired in 1967 due to term limits, but his wife, Lurleen, won the next election and succeeded him, with him as the de facto governor
In Wallace's 1998 obituary, The Huntsville Times political editor John Anderson summarized the impact from the 1968 campaign: "His startling appeal to millions of alienated white voters was not lost on Richard Nixon and other Republican strategists

