Background
Wallace was born on February 11, 1853, in Wellington County, Ontario, the son of Donald Wallace of Scotland and Harriet Lasby of England.
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He had nine siblings—John Doctorate., George, Francis South., Alexander H., Charles L., Frank South., Lavinia M., Matilda H. and Mary A. Albert Joseph was educated at Victoria University, Toronto.
Career
He moved to Pasadena, California, in 1886 and to Los Angeles in 1898. Wallace was a University of Southern California regent in 1887 and received an honorary doctor of laws degree from that school in 1912. He was president of the California Anti-Saloon League and of the Los Angeles Young Men’s Christian Association board of directors.
He was identified with the development of the Methodist Church in Southern California.
In 1907 Wallace was elected one of the four vice presidents of the International Young Men’s Christian Association convention in Washington, District of Columbia His second was Grace Alice Clark of Worcester, Massachusetts, whom Wallace met in Pasadena while she was vacationing there. They had four children, Kenneth Clark, Donald J., Helen Harriot and Katherine.
She died on July 6, 1913. Wallace died at the age of 86 on February 23, 1939, in his home, 631 North McCadden Place in Hancock Park, Los Los Angeles
A funeral service was conducted at the First Hollywood Methodist Church, with interment at Rosedale Cemetery.
Grace Hagar Wallace died on September 3, 1939. Wallace was a teacher between 1869 and 1872, and he was a Methodist minister from 1872 to 1878. He was later the president of the Kendon Petroleum Company.
On December 4, 1906, he was elected from the 5th Ward as a Republican and nonpartisan to a three-year term on the Los Angeles City Council by a vote of 2,453 for Wallace against 629 for Naelle, his Democratic opponent.
He was lieutenant governor of California from 1910 to 1914, during Hiram Johnson"s first term. In 1921 Wallace was a candidate for the Republican nomination for United States. senator, but he was defeated in that bid by Samuel Shortridge.
Membership
Wallace was named a member of the board of trustees of the University of Southern California in 1895 and was board president from 1924 to 1927.
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Political Party
Republican party