Word: lurleen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last female state Governor was Lurleen Wallace in Alabama, a stand-in for her husband George, forbidden by the state constitution to succeed himself. (The first: Nellie Tayloe Ross was elected Governor of Wyoming in 1924.) The legislatures of the 50 states have a total membership of more than 7,000-including only 340 women. Few of these women have much influence, though there are stirring exceptions: New York Assembly Member Constance Cook, for example, represents a small upstate county, but led a successful fight for liberalizing the state's abortion...
Married. George C. Wallace, 51, Governor-elect of Alabama and Dixie's whilom presidential candidate; and Cornelia Ellis Snively, 32, onetime professional water skier and niece of former Governor James E. Folsom; both for the second time (Lurleen Wallace, who succeeded her husband as Governor in 1967, died of cancer a year later); in a Presbyterian ceremony in Montgomery...
...unfair. Wallace got only 51.5% of the total. His margin was a mere 32,000 votes out of the 1,074,000 cast-a comedown from the 72,000 votes by which he won a similar runoff in 1962 and the 237,000 by which his late wife Lurleen won the Democratic primary for Governor in 1966. More than half a million voters refused to go along with George this time, although possibly half of those were blacks. In one black precinct in Jefferson County, Brewer's margin was 2,149 to 24; in a Montgomery precinct...