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Former Alabama first lady Cornelia Wallace dies
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| Last Edited | RMF Jan 08, 2009 07:40pm |
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| News Date | Friday, January 9, 2009 01:40:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Former Alabama first lady Cornelia Wallace, who threw herself over Gov. George C. Wallace when he was shot in a 1972 assassination attempt, died Thursday in Sebring, Fla. She was 69.
Wallace's cousin, Melissa Boyen, said the former first lady died from cancer.
Cornelia Wallace was the niece of two-term Gov. James E. "Big Jim" Folsom. The dark-haired beauty, known simply as "C'nelia," married George Wallace on Jan. 4, 1971 - just days before he began his second term as governor. It was the second marriage for both.
The union marked a merger between Alabama's two most famous political families and surprised some because George Wallace had defeated Jim Folsom in the 1962 race for governor and the relationship between the two governors had been strained since then.
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