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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.
Albert Preston Brewer was an American politician who was the 47th Governor of Alabama from May 7, 1968 until January 18, 1971.
John Edward Grenier was an American attorney and a pioneer in the development of the modern Republican Party in the U.S. state of Alabama. Grenier was a former litigator for Lange Simpson Robinson & Somerville, one of the oldest and most distinguished law firms in Birmingham. He was Alabama state Republican party chairman from 1962 to 1965. He then launched an unsuccessful campaign in 1966 for the United States Senate. He was thereafter active in 1986 in the election of Guy Hunt as the state's first Republican governor of the 20th century.
George Corley Wallace III, generally known as George Wallace Jr., is an American politician from the U.S. state of Alabama.
Richmond McDavid Flowers Sr. was from 1963 to 1967 the Attorney General of the U.S. state of Alabama, best known for his opposition to then Governor George C. Wallace's policy of racial segregation.
The Alabama gubernatorial election of 1970 was marked by a competitive Democratic primary battle between incumbent moderate Governor Albert Brewer and segregationist former Governor and 1968 independent presidential candidate George Wallace. The Alabama Constitution was amended in 1968, allowing a governor to serve two consecutive terms.
The Alabama gubernatorial election of 1982 included the last campaign and final electoral victory of George Wallace. The election occurred on November 2, 1982. Incumbent Governor Fob James declined to run for a second term, allowing for an open election in 1982. In the Democratic primary, Wallace received challenges from Lieutenant Governor George McMillan, Speaker of the State House Joe McCorquodale, Jr., former Governor Jim Folsom, and Reuben McKinley. Because Wallace did not receive a majority of the votes, he advanced to a run-off with McMillan and then narrowly won the Democratic nomination. Montgomery Mayor Emory Folmar went unchallenged for the Republican nomination.
The Alabama gubernatorial election of 1958 was held on November 3, 1958. Incumbent Democrat Jim Folsom was term limited and could not seek a second consecutive term.
The Arkansas gubernatorial election of November 8, 1966 was the first time since Reconstruction that a member of the Republican Party was elected governor.
George Copeland Hawkins, Jr., usually known as George C. Hawkins, was an Alabama lawyer and Democratic politician.
Elvin Columbus McCary was an American businessman and politician in his native Anniston, Alabama, who defected in 1950 from the Democratic to the Republican Party. In the heavily Democratic year of 1974, he was the GOP sacrificial lamb in the gubernatorial race against the incumbent George Wallace, who won the third of his four terms in the office.
Albert Sheffield Nettles, known as Bert Nettles, is an attorney from Birmingham, Alabama, who served from 1969 to 1974 as a Republican member of the Alabama House of Representatives from Mobile County. He is one of the first members of his party to have held a state legislative seat in Alabama since Reconstruction though Tandy Little of Montgomery and two other Republicans had been elected for single terms in 1962.
Tandy Duncan Little, Jr., was a Republican former member of the Alabama House of Representatives, who represented from 1962 to 1966 the capital city of Montgomery, Alabama.
Alfred Witherspoon Goldthwaite, Sr., was an attorney from his native Montgomery, Alabama, who as a member of the Alabama House of Representatives became the first public official in his state to defect in the early 1960s from the Democratic to the Republican Party.
The 1978 United States Senate election in Alabama was held on November 7, 1978. Incumbent Democratic Senator John Sparkman retired from the United States Senate and Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court Howell Heflin was elected to succeed him.
