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Lurleen Burns Wallace (born Lurleen Brigham Burns; September 19, 1926 – May 7, 1968) was an American politician who served as the 46th governor of Alabama for 16 months from January 16, 1967 until her death on May 7, 1968.
Mar 15, 2024 · She became a candidate in her own right, taking note of important people, shaking hands with voters, and making promises. In an almost unprecedented demonstration of popularity, Lurleen Wallace won the Democratic primary without a runoff.
Apr 12, 2017 · Lurleen Burns Wallace (September 19, 1926 – May 7, 1968), born in Tuscaloosa, was the Governor of Alabama from 1967 until her death and first wife of Alabama Governor George Wallace. She was Alabama's first female governor and, to date, only elected female governor.
Lurleen Wallace became the first female governor of Alabama in 1967. Laws at the time prevented her husband Governor George Wallace from seeking a second term, so Mrs. Wallace ran for Governor in his stead.
Wallace won the May Democratic primary with 54 percent of the vote which assured her election in November. She was inaugurated on January 16, 1967, and refused to have the customary inaugural ball out of respect to Alabamians serving in Vietnam.
May 7, 2009 · Alabama's Lurleen Wallace (D), who ran for governor and won in 1966 as a surrogate for her husband, George -- who was barred by state law from seeking re-election -- dies of cancer....
May 7, 2018 · MONTGOMERY, AL (WSFA) - A ceremony was held Monday at Alabama's Capitol to mark the 50th anniversary of the death of the state's first female governor, Lurleen B. Wallace. Wallace died of...
Jan 19, 2016 · Lurleen Wallace, the first female governor elected in the deep South, was sworn in on Jan. 16, 1967. She did not hold the traditional inaugural ball out of respect for those serving...
Lurleen Burns Wallace was elected Alabama's first woman governor and the third woman governor in the nation in 1966. The next year she was named one of the Ten Most Admired Women of the World.
Aug 30, 2012 · Taken from a variety of archival sources, this video includes the announcement of the death of Alabama Gov. Lurleen B. Wallace on May 7, 1968, footage from the laying in state at the Capitol ...
