Lurleen Wallace

Lurleen Wallace

Lurleen Brigham Burns Wallace (September 19, 1926 – May 7, 1968), born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was the 46th governor of Alabama from 1967 until her death in 1968. She was the first wife of Alabama Governor George Corley Wallace, whom she succeeded as governor because he was constitutionally ineligible to seek a second consecutive term. She was Alabama's first, and to date, only female governor. She was also the first, and so far, only female governor in U.S. history to have died in office. In 1973, she was posthumously inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame.