Lurleen Brigham Burns Wallace , 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. Lurleen Brigham Burns was born to Henry Burns and the former... Estelle Burroughs of Fosters in Tuscaloosa County. By taking summer classes, she graduated in 1942 from Tuscaloosa County High School at the age of fifteen. She then worked at Kresge’s Five and Dime in Tuscaloosa, where she met George Wallace, at the time a member of the United States Army Air Corps. The couple married on May 21, 1943, when she was sixteen. Over the next twenty years, Lurleen Wallace focused on being a mother and a homemaker.
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| Birthdate: | September 19, 1926 |
| Birthplace: | Tuscaloosa, Alabama |
| Date of death: | May 7, 1968 |
| Religion: | Methodism |