Dorothy Wallace Burton

> *Second and current wife of Wendell Rawlings Burton*
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Dorothy Wallace Burton

**Dorothy Wallace Burton** (born **Dorothy Elizabeth Wallace** on February 28, 1951) is a member of the Wallace family and she was previously married into the Webster family until 1972 and had became married into the Burton family in 1975. Dorothy Burton is the wife of Wendell Rawlings Burton since 1975, and the mother of seven children (three from the previous marriage and four from her present marriage).

Born to a Scottish and English American family on February 28, 1951, in Fairfax, Virginia, to Jefferson Davis Wallace and Ethelreda Lynn Whitelaw Wallace, and grew up with nine siblings in a Fairfax suburb around Vienna. Virginia was a segregated state but the *Brown v. Board of Education* mandated that public schools in the United States, especially in southern states like Virginia, that they must integrate to allow children of all races to attend a similar school. Dorothy's parents opposed the Brown decision and her father kept her from starting school in protest. Dorothy had to attend a segregated private school instead. Her father, who was a Democrat, became distrusting of President John F. Kennedy over his seemingly acceptance of civil rights, and when the civil rights movement broke out in 1963 (though the civil rights movement actually began a decade earlier), Dorothy secretly attended the 1963 March on Washington, but not because she supported civil rights either. President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and Lyndon B. Johnson overtook the Presidency just subsequently. President Johnson aggressively implemented Kennedy's agenda through the Great Society programs, which alienated her father into becoming a Republican and supported Barry Goldwater over Johnson for President in the 1964 U.S. presidential election, and Dorothy became a Republican as well due to Goldwater's campaign and her opposition to Johnson's expansion of the New Deal programs of the past U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1968, her brother was drafted for Vietnam but evaded his draft with a fake medical excuse that was believable, Martin Luther King Jr and Robert F. Kennedy were killed, Richard Nixon was elected President, and in 1969, she married her first husband, Zachary Potter Webster III.

Rejecting the ideas of the second wave feminist movement, Dorothy lived the life of house wife, she and Zachary Webster had three children, Zachary II, Dorothy, and Melissa, and she stayed home and raised the children. But Zachary Webster had not been a faithful husband, and this resulted in divorce in 1972. In 1973, Dorothy met and became romantically involved with Wendell Rawlings Burton, who like Dorothy, is a Republican. Dorothy and Wendell married in 1975 and the two went on to have four children, Austin, George, Ezekiel, and Wendy. Going into the 2020s, Dorothy became more moderate, already expressing concern about the legacy of the Presidency of Donald Trump, she disagreed with the overturning of *Roe v. Wade*, she became more open to LGBT rights including same-sex marriage, and she broke traditional gender roles by becoming more involved in politics in the 2024 Chawosaurian elections.

## Biography

Dorothy Elizabeth Wallace was born on February 28, 1951, in Fairfax, Virginia, to Jefferson Davis Wallace and Ethelreda Lynn Wallace (*née* Whitelaw). Her family are predominately of Scottish descent. Dorothy's siblings were Carlisle, Thomas, Timothy, Victoria, Theresa, Gretchen, Chester, Stuart, and Isabella; five brothers and four sisters. The Wallaces were Presbyterian, the predominate Christian allegiance of Scottish people.

Jefferson and Ethelreda were conservative, southern Democrats of Virginia, they opposed civil rights and progressive policies. Dorothy too disagreed with progressivism, but disagreed with her parents on civil rights, and her siblings were more on the left of her and her parents. Dorothy attended the 1963 March on Washington to support civil rights, and among other demands of the civil rights movement. On November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated in Texas, resulting in Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson to become President.