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In the News (Mon 13 Oct 08)

  
  Alabama Governor Lurleen Wallace
Lurleen Burns Wallace was born on September 19, 1926, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Henry and Estelle Burroughs Burns.
Lurleen was inaugurated on January 16, 1967, and refused to have the customary inaugural ball out of respect to Alabamians serving in Vietnam.
Wallace was hospitalized in Houston, Texas, where doctors discovered the cancer for which she had been treated in 1966 had returned.
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 The American Experience | George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire | People & Events | Lurleen Wallace
When Wallace was elected state representative, they rented a room at a boardinghouse in Montgomery for the legislative session and lived in garage apartments in the small town of Clayton during the rest of the year where Wallace had a law office.
Lurleen became Alabama’s first lady in 1963, and as her husband achieved political success, she finally received some help taking care of the children, and with the governor’s mansion, had a palace for a home.
Wallace had not wanted to upset Lurleen and it was common practice for a doctor to follow the husband’s lead about whether or not to inform the wife.
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 Lurleen Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lurleen Burns Wallace (September 19, 1926 – May 7, 1968), born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, was the first wife of Alabama Governor George Wallace, and as of 2006, the only woman to be elected Governor of Alabama.
Wallace's solution to this problem was two-pronged; first, Wallace worked for the repeal of the term-limiting constitutional provision (in which he succeeded; Wallace was to serve three subsequent terms, including two consecutive ones).
Wallace won the Democratic nomination for governor in 1966 and was elected Governor of Alabama in November 1966, with her inauguration being held in January 1967.
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 George C. Wallace
George Wallace was educated at the University of Alabama, and having been an assistant attorney general of Alabama, a member of the state legislature, and a district court judge, Wallace was elected as governor, where he served from 1963 to 1967.
Ineligible to succeed himself, his wife, Lurleen Burns Wallace, ran for governor in his place in 1966 and was elected.
Wallace sought the United States presidency in 1968 as a candidate of the American Independent Party, running on antidesegregation issues, respect for law and order, and freedom from excessive federal control.
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 George Corley Wallace Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
George Corley Wallace (1919-1998) was an Alabama governor and a third-party presidential candidate in 1968.
Wallace's program, repeated across the country almost without change, revealed his single-minded concern for property rights and freedom of local and individual decision--which, he warned, were threatened by the Federal bureaucracy.
Wallace died on September 13, 1998, at Jackson Hospital in Montgomery, Alabama, of respiratory and cardiac arrest.
www.bookrags.com /biography/george-corley-wallace   (686 words)

  
 Steve Flowers Inside the Statehouse
In 1966 Wallace's wife, Lurleen, carried the state in a landslide and Brewer was the Wallace teams's candidate for Lt. Governor.
Lurleen Wallace had cancer when she was elected in 1966.
Wallace also ran some of the most negative T. ads in our state's history against Brewer, saying that a vote for Brewer would turn the state over to the "Black Bloc Vote." There were also vicious flyers attacking Brewer and his family.
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 Washingtonpost.com: George Wallace Remembered
Wallace's story is a certifiable American epic – a tale about the power of hatred and fate and perhaps even redemption.
He has perfected Wallace's walk, his serpentine quickness (Wallace was a bantamweight Golden Gloves champion), his arsenal of smiles, his magnetic defiance, his hypnotic cadences, even that trademark forelock that arched back across his scalp like a cockscomb.
In one particularly cruel scene, the doctors tell Wallace that Lurleen has cancer, and the man whose slogan is "Stand Up for Alabama" can't find the nerve to face her with the bad news.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/daily/sept98/wallace082397.htm   (931 words)

  
 The American Experience | George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire | People & Events | George Wallace
Wallace was born in 1919 to a farming family in the town of Clio.
Wallace's end-run around this obstacle was to have his wife, Lurleen, run for governor in 1966.
Wallace made a third-party run for the presidency in 1968, winning five states in the general election, and then decided to run for governor again.
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 Welcome to myfoodcount.com - Measure your Health - Famous Parkinson Sufferer - George Wallace   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Wallace later stated that he had not read this part of the speech prior to delivering it, and that he had regretted it almost immediately.
Wallace said he disagreed with Abraham Lincoln that fls should be able to vote, serve on juries, or hold public office-although he agreed with Lincoln that equality for fls could come with education, uplift, and time.
Wallace was the subject of a documentary, George Wallace: Settin' the Woods on Fire, shown by PBS on the American Experience in 2000,.
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 George Wallace Summary
Wallace rose to the rank of staff sergeant in the 58th Bomb Wing of the Twentieth Air Force.
Lurleen Wallace died in office in 1968, when she was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor Albert Brewer, reducing Wallace's influence until his new bid for election in his own right in 1970.
Wallace died from a bacterial blood infection in Montgomery, Alabama on September 13, 1998.
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 TIME.com: The Pains of Loyalty -- May 17, 1968 -- Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Lurleen Burns was a poor man's daughter, and all she could bring as her dowry was loyalty.
From her deathbed, Lurleen had urged him to keep up his quest for the presidency, though public life as Governor's lady and then as the nation's only lady Governor was never to her taste.
While she was Governor, Wallace had been unquestioned master of Alabama, free to conscript dozens of administration cronies to work full time in his campaign; 16 state troopers shielded him from hecklers when he went speechifying.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,838349,00.html   (683 words)

  
 National Governors Association
Wallace served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1942 to 1945, and was an assistant attorney general from 1946 to 1947.
Wallace served as her special assistant, earning a dollar a year, and making most of the important executive decisions.
Wallace retired from politics in 1987, and died on September 13, 1998, in Montgomery.
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 washingtonpost.com: George Wallace's Unwanted Legacy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
Wallace's son, George Wallace Jr., said the family wants to give the artifacts to Alabama's Department of Archives and History for preservation and display.
Wallace served a record four terms as governor of Alabama and rattled both Republicans and Democrats when he ran for president as an independent in 1968, drawing nearly 10 million votes.
When Wallace died Sept. 13, 1998, there were all kinds of ideas for memorializing him and his late wife, Lurleen, Alabama's only female governor.
www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A20319-2005Feb13?language=printer   (730 words)

  
 George Wallace
Wallace entered politics as a segregationalist Democrat, running successfully for the governorship of Alabama.
Wallace gave in after the state National Guard was federalized.
Wallace holds the record for serving longest as governor of Alabama: 1963-67, 1971-75; 1975-79 and 1983-87.
www.multied.com /Bio/people/Wallace.html   (270 words)

  
 Mourners praise George Wallace at vigil - September 17, 1998
Wallace, who died Sunday night of cardiac arrest at 79, was to be buried Wednesday alongside his first wife, former Gov. Lurleen Wallace.
Wallace was shot in 1972 by a would-be assassin as he campaigned for the presidency for a third time.
But Wallace, who had been out of office for a dozen years and in failing health, was remembered by his faithful as a caring man, a politician who kept his word and an inspiration in his battle against physical torment.
www.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/09/16/wallace.01/index.html   (672 words)

  
 Archives: Story
Wallace came on first and did all right but he was used to the stump and country campaigning so the new medium of TV felt uncomfortable to him.
Wallace was elected governor, but de Graffenreid had run a brilliant get acquainted race and a star had been born.
Lurleen would not have run if de Graffenreid had not tragically died, but a real vacuum existed after that fateful February night and the Wallace name was magic.
www.brewtonstandard.com /articles/2005/09/28/opinion/opin04.txt   (946 words)

  
 ::The Demopolis Times::   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
George Wallace mulled it over for a few weeks then the amazing story of his wife Lurleen Wallace running for Governor came to fruition.
George Wallace had captured control of the race issue and that was the issue in 1966.
Lurleen Wallace went on to trounce the most popular Republican in Alabama, Jim Martin, in November by a two to one margin.
www.demopolistimes.com /articles/2005/10/05/opinion/opinion01.txt   (701 words)

  
 Wallace memorabilia needs home
Wallace's son, George Wallace Jr., said the family wants to give the artifacts to Alabama's Department of Archives and History for preservation and display.
Wallace served a record four terms as governor of Alabama and rattled both Republicans and Democrats when he ran as an independent in 1968, drawing nearly 10 million votes.
When Wallace died Sept. 13, 1998, there were all kinds of ideas for memorializing him and his late wife, Lurleen Wallace, who was Alabama's only female governor.
www.decaturdaily.com /decaturdaily/business/050213/wallace.shtml   (745 words)

  
 National Governors Association
LURLEEN BURNS WALLACE was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama on September 19, 1926. She graduated from Tuscaloosa Business College and worked in a Tuscaloosa dime store where she met George C. Wallace.
In her short term as governor, Lurleen Wallace was hospitalized with cancer on several occasions before her death on May 7, 1968.
Governor Wallace was the neice of Alabama Governor James Elisha Folsom Sr.
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 George Corley Wallace — FactMonster.com
Wallace, George Corley, 1919–98, governor of Alabama (1963–67, 1971–79, 1983–87), b.
Admitted to the bar in 1942, he was active in the Alabama Democratic party, serving in the state assembly (1947–53) and as a district court judge (1953–59).
In 1974 Wallace was overwhelmingly reelected governor, and in 1976 he made another unsuccessful bid for the Democratic nomination.
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 Wallace for President 1.75" Celluloid pinback (GW68)
His first wife, Lurleen Wallace, was the first (and, as of 2006, only) woman to ever be elected as Governor of Alabama.
After the election Wallace vowed "I'll never be outniggered again." In the wake of his defeat, Wallace adopted a hard-line segregationist style, and used this stand to court the white vote in the next gubernatorial election.
Lurleen Wallace, however, passed away in 1968, when she was succeeded by Lieutenant Governor Albert Brewer, reducing Wallace's influence until his new bid for election in his own right in 1970.
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 PBS VIDEOIndex Online -- Program   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-30)
George Wallace's story is of a talented young man trying to do right and the devil's bargain he made to achieve power: and of an old man seeking redemption from the people he scorned.
Within months, Wallace is back in the headlines for refusing to turn over voting records to a panel investigating discrimination against fl voters.
Wallace's opposition to the civil rights movement is a pivotal force in passing both the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
videoindex.pbs.org /program/program.jsp?item_id=18229   (368 words)

  
 George Wallace : The Influential Years
Wallace runs for President on the American Independent ticket, receiving 13% of the popular vote.
Wallace is elected Governor for the second time.
While campaigning in Laurel, Md., Wallace is shot by Arthur Bremer in an assassination attempt.
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