The notorious segregationist George Wallace formed the American Independent Party in 1968 in order to run for president. (He had failed in his effort to win the Democratic Party nomination from ...

Wallace ran on a so-called American Independent Party ticket; in 1980, when former Republican presidential candidate and Illinois congressman John Anderson launched an independent candidacy after ...

Placating the South was necessary because Alabama Governor George Wallace entered the election as a third party candidate for the American Independent Party, running on a platform of extreme ...

Ex-Democrats Jason Pizzo and John Morgan could be no party affiliation or third party candidates for governor next year. Many ...

Louisiana’s new closed primaries begin next April. State officials are backing a change to dissolve the Independent Party in a bid to avoid voter confusion.