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May 20, 2023 · It was 55 years ago, in May 1968, that our first female governor, Lurleen Wallace, died. She was a genuinely humble person. Lurleen Wallace was very popular. The state fell in love with...
Gov. Lurleen Burns Wallace. Terms January 15, 1967 - May 6, 1968. Party Democratic. Born September 18, 1926. Passed May 6, 1968. Birth State Alabama. School Tuscaloosa Business College. Family Married George Wallace; four children. Status Died in office.
- Birmingham News
Woman killed in morning shooting near I-359 in Tuscaloosa
An early-morning shooting in Tuscaloosa left one person dead. The shooting happened shortly before 3...
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- The Tuscaloosa News
Tuscaloosa police investigate after woman killed in Thursday morning shooting
Tuscaloosa police are investigating a shooting that left one woman dead Thursday morning in Tuscaloosa. At bout 3 a.m., officers with the Tu...
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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. Contents. 1 Early years. 2 Governorship and illness. 3 Legacies. 4 External links
May 7, 2009 · May 7, 1968: 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...
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. Mental health facilities in Alabama became one of her primary interests after a visit to Bryce Hospital and Partlow State School in Tuscaloosa, and to ...
Subscribers may view the full text of this article in its original form through TimesMachine. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Tuesday, May 7 -- Gov. Lurleen B. Wallace died early today of cancer. She was 41...
Jan 19, 2016 · Inauguration. 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...
