Block, Upload, Automoderated users, edit, move, protect, rollback
57,799
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 3:
Line 3: − |lieutenant=Albert P. Brewer Line 15:
Line 14: − + Line 25:
Line 24: − + − + Line 44:
Line 43: +
no edit summary
|image=Lurleen Wallace of AL.jpg
|image=Lurleen Wallace of AL.jpg
|office=46th [[Governor]] of [[Alabama]]
|office=46th [[Governor]] of [[Alabama]]
|term_start=January 16, 1967
|term_start=January 16, 1967
|term_end=May 7, 1968
|term_end=May 7, 1968
|succeeded2=George Wallace (as First Gentleman)
|succeeded2=George Wallace (as First Gentleman)
|birth_date=September 19, 1926
|birth_date=September 19, 1926
|birth_place=[[Tuscaloosa, Alabama}Tuscaloosa]], Alabama
|birth_place=[[Tuscaloosa, Alabama|Tuscaloosa]], Alabama
|death_date=May 7, 1968 (aged 41)
|death_date=May 7, 1968 (aged 41)
|death_place=[[Montgomery]], Alabama
|death_place=[[Montgomery]], Alabama
}}
}}
'''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.
'''Lurleen Burns Wallace''' September 19, 1926 – May 7, 1968) was the 46th Governor of [[Alabama]] succeeding her husband, [[George C. Wallace]], who was term-limited. 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 handily defeated [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. Representative]] James Douglas Martin (1918-2017) in the gubernatorial [[general election]].
==See also==
==See also==
[[Category:Alabama]]
[[Category:Alabama]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:Former Governors]]
[[Category:Women]]