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'''Lurleen Burns Wallace''' (1926 – 1968) was the 46th Governor of [[Alabama]] succeeding her husband, [[George C. Wallace]] after he was term-limited out. The Alabama constitution forbade consecutive terms.<ref>AL Const. art. V, § 114</ref> She was Alabama's first female governor serving for fifteen months from January 1967 until her death from [[cancer]] in May 1968, while her husband was in the process of assembling his American Independent Party to challenge [[Richard M. Nixon]] and [[Hubert Humphrey]] in the presidential election.
{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Lurleen Burns Wallace
|image=Lurleen Wallace of AL.jpg
|office=46th [[Governor]] of [[Alabama]]
|lieutenant=Albert P. Brewer
|term_start=January 16, 1967
|term_end=May 7, 1968
|preceded-[[George Wallace]]
|succeeded=Albert P. Brewer
|office2=First Lady of Alabama
|governor2=[[George Wallace]]
|term_start2=January 14, 1963
|term_end2=January 16, 1967
|preceded2=Florentine Patterson
|succeeded2=George Wallace (as First Gentleman)
|birth_date=September 19, 1926
|birth_place=[[Tuscaloosa, Alabama}Tuscaloosa]], Alabama
|death_date=May 7, 1968 (aged 41)
|death_place=[[Montgomery]], Alabama
|resting_place=Greenwood Cemetery in Montgomery
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|spouse=George Corley Wallace, Jr., (married 1943-1968, her death)
|children=Four children, including George Wallace, III]]
|alma_mater=Tuscaloosa Business College
}}
'''Lurleen Burns Wallace''' September 19, 1926 – May 7, 1968) was the 46th Governor of [[Alabama]] succeeding her husband, [[George C. Wallace]] after he was term-limited out. The Alabama constitution forbade consecutive terms.<ref>AL Const. art. V, § 114</ref> She was Alabama's first female governor serving for fifteen months from January 1967 until her death from [[cancer]] in May 1968, while her husband was in the process of assembling his American Independent Party to challenge [[Richard M. Nixon]] and [[Hubert Humphrey]] in the presidential election.
In 1966, Lurleen Wallace defeated [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. Representative]] [[James Douglas Martin]] in the gubernatorial [[general election]].
In 1966, Lurleen Wallace defeated [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. Representative]] [[James Douglas Martin]] in the gubernatorial [[general election]].
[[Category:The South]]
[[Category:The South]]
[[Category:Democratic Governors]]
[[Category:Democratic Governors]]
[[Category:Alabama]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]