At the time, Cornelia Wallace was seeking support in his bid for his party's presidential nomination.
11 Facts About Cornelia Wallace
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Folsom was a widower and in 1947 invited his sister to be First Lady; Cornelia Wallace joined her at eight years of age.
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Cornelia Wallace attended Methodist Huntingdon College and Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida, and studied voice and piano.
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Cornelia Wallace sang and played guitar and toured Australia and Hawaii with Country music singer Roy Acuff.
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Cornelia Wallace wrote and recorded two songs for M-G-M records: "It's No Summer Love" and "Baby with the Barefoot Feet".
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Cornelia Wallace married John Snively, whose family owned the tourist attraction Cypress Gardens near Winter Haven, Florida.
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Cornelia Wallace was a niece of George Wallace's intraparty rival, former Governor Jim Folsom, whom Wallace had defeated in the 1962 Democratic primary.
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Cornelia Wallace married Wallace on January 4,1971, shortly before he was inaugurated for the second of his four nonconsecutive terms as governor, and two and a half years following the death of his first wife, former Governor Lurleen Burns Wallace.
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Cornelia Wallace was portrayed by Angelina Jolie in the TV film George Wallace.
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Cornelia Wallace died of cancer in Sebring, Florida, on January 8,2009.
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Turnham recalled that as first lady, Mrs Cornelia Wallace urged Alabamians to plant vegetable gardens to be more self-reliant.