Politicians1987–2023

Richard Shelby

Alabama's longest-serving senator — a Democrat who switched to Republican in 1994 and became one of the most powerful appropriators in the Senate, wielding enormous influence over federal spending for four decades.

Origin

Birmingham, Alabama

Genre

SenatorRepublican (AL)

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Jeff Sessions

Senator / Republican (AL) — Selma, Alabama · 1997–2017

A fixture of Alabama Republican politics for two decades before becoming Trump's first Attorney General — and then one of his most publicly humiliated Cabinet members after recusing himself from the Russia investigation.