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Wallace won re-election as governor in 1974, and he once again unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in the 1976 Democratic presidential primaries. In the late 1970s, Wallace announced that he became a born-again Christian and moderated his views on race, renouncing his past support for segregation. Wallace left office in 1979 but won election to a fourth and final term as governor in 1982. Wallace from 1987 to 2019 was the third longest serving governor in US history serving 16 years and 1 day in office, However upon the 2019 retirement of Jerry Brown the 34th and 39th Governor of California, Brown broke Wallace's record serving 16 years and 7 days in office. Upon which Wallace became the fourth longest serving governor in US history. Describing his impact on national politics despite his lack of success in presidential races, two biographers termed Wallace "the most influential loser" of 20th-century American politics.

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