page_title: Lurleen Wallace
section_title: Legacies
hierarchical_section_title: Lurleen Wallace / Legacies
caption_attribution_description: English: The Lurleen Wallace Office Building in Montgomery, Alabama (United States).
context_page_description: Lurleen Burns Wallace was the 46th Governor of Alabama for fifteen months from January 1967 until her death in May 1968. She was the first wife of Alabama Governor George Wallace, whom she succeeded as governor because the Alabama constitution forbade consecutive terms. She was Alabama's first female Governor and was the only female governor to hold the position until Kay Ivey became the second woman to succeed to the office in 2017. She is also the 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.
context_section_description: In addition to her support for the modernization of Partlow State Hospital for children, Lurleen Wallace obtained a large funding increase for Alabama state parks.  Lake Lurleen in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama is named in her memory.
  Since Alabama then lacked adequate cancer treatment facilities, Mrs. Wallace had to travel to the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston for diagnosis and treatment.  This underscored the need for improved cancer care in Alabama.  Following her death, the Lurleen Wallace Courage Crusade was spearheaded by her successor, Governor Albert Brewer, leading to fundraising for building a new cancer center.  The University of Alabama Hospital at the University of Alabama at Birmingham was selected as the site for the cancer center, and a formal cancer center program was begun in 1970. Funding was received from the National Cancer Institute, and the center became one of the first eight NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers. Dr. John Durant served as its first director.  Construction of the Lurleen B. Wallace Tumor Institute at UAB was begun in 1974 and was completed in 1976. The Wallace Patient Tower, an addition to University Hospital, was built in her honor, as was Lurleen B. Wallace Community College in Andalusia, Alabama; and Lurleen B. Wallace Hall on the campus of the University of West Alabama.
caption: Lurleen Wallace Office Building in Montgomery
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