Malcolm Wallace
Malcolm Everett "Mac" Wallace (November 15, 1921 – January 7, 1971) was an economist for the United States Department of Agriculture.
Biography
Wallace was a native of Mount Pleasant, Texas. He was the son of Alvin James Wallace, Sr. (1895-1973), a cement and construction contractor, according to the 1930 US Census, and Alice Marie Riddle (1897-1959). He served in the United States Marine Corps.
Wallace graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1947. He was the president of the student body and led a 1944 protest against the ouster of University president Homer P. Rainey. Wallace was also a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University, from September 1947 to May 1948 but did not graduate with a degree.
On October 22, 1951, Wallace fatally shot John Douglas Kinser, who had been having an affair with his wife, in the clubhouse of an Austin golf course owned by Kinser.
Wallace was the manager of the purchasing department of Ling-Temco-Vought. He attended an Episcopal church in Dallas.
