Lucy Baxley

Lucy Baxley (* December 21, 1937 at Pansey, Houston County, Alabama) is an American politician and was Vice Governor of Alabama zwischen 2003 and 2007. In 2006 she was nominated by the Democratic Party as a candidate for the gubernatorial elections in Alabama.

Biography

Lucy Baxley graduated from Auburn University in Montgomery, but where they did not graduate, but dropped out before the end of the course. At 18, she married Bill Baxley, a lawyer from Alabama, who later, as they too 1983-1987 Lieutenant Governor of Alabama was. After her husband's affair divorced Lucy Baxley from him and married in 1996 Jim Smith.

1994 Baxley was nominated for the office of the Finance Minister of Alabama. They won the election and could take office in the following year. The choice four years later, she contested successfully, so that she could complete a second term. Only in 2003, after winning election to the Deputy Governor, she stepped down from this position. She managed, with 51.58 % against Bill Armistead, the candidate of the Republicans to enforce; the other two candidates received only very small numbers of votes.

In 2005, they announced their intention to run for governor of Alabama. Your rival candidate in his own party was Don Siegelman, but she could defeat with 60 % of votes. In the final choice, however, they could not against the incumbent governor, Bob Riley, to prevail, as they only received 41% of votes cast.

After their term of office had expired as Deputy Governor in 2007, she was planning a political comeback in 2008, which she succeeded. You won the election for president of the Alabama Public Service Commission to Republican Twinkle A. Cavanaugh.

Heart attack and recovery

November 23, 2006 Baxley was taken to the University Hospital of Birmingham, after suffering a heart attack middle. The Baxleys family who had visited them, the people of Alabama asked to pray. More detailed information about their health status have not been made at this time. After Baxley was released six days later from the hospital, she went to 29 December 2006 the Lake Shore Rehabilitation Center, which is also located in Birmingham. After she was released there, they did not return Montegomery to open the session of the Senate, as it had advised her neurologist, but remained in Birmingham. Although it has been said that her health was stable, it was hard for her to move the left arm and legs.

Swell

Newspaper article in the Decatur Daily
RE / MAX Alabama: Lucy Baxley

Deputy Governor (Alabama )
Member of the Democratic Party (United States)
Americans
Born in 1937
Woman

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