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'''Lurleen Burns Wallace''' September 19, 1926 &ndash; 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.

'''Lurleen Burns Wallace''' September 19, 1926 &ndash; 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, Mrs. Wallace handily defeated [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. Representative]] James Douglas Martin (1918-2017) in the gubernatorial [[general election]].  

In 1966, Mrs. Wallace handily defeated [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. Representative]] James Douglas Martin (1918-2017) of Gadsden in the gubernatorial [[general election]]. [[John Sparkman]] won another term in the same election against the Republican [[John Grenier]].

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