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Its United States Senate seats were declared vacant from March 1861 to July 1868 due to its secession from the Union during the American Civil War. Richard Shelby is Alabama's longest serving senator (served 1987–2023). Alabama's current U.S. senators are Republicans Tommy Tuberville (since 2021) and Katie Britt (since 2023).
The 90th Congress was notable because for a period of 10 days (December 24, 1968 – January 3, 1969), it contained within the Senate, all 10 of what was at one point the top 10 longest-serving senators in history (Byrd, Inouye, Thurmond, Kennedy, Hayden, Stennis, Stevens, Hollings, Russell Jr., and Long) until January 7, 2013, when Patrick Leahy surpassed Russell B. Long as the 10th longest ...
Richard Shelby. Richard Craig Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 1987 to 2023. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 as a Democrat who later switched to the Republican Party in 1994, he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee from 2018 to 2021.
Doug Jones recites an excerpt of Letter from Birmingham Jail on the Senate floor. Recorded April 10, 2019. Gordon Douglas Jones (born May 4, 1954) is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 2018 to 2021. [1][2] A member of the Democratic Party, Jones was previously the United States Attorney ...
The Governor is the chief executive of the state's government. The governor is responsible for upholding the Alabama Constitution and executing state law. The governor is elected by popular election every four years. The constitution limits the governor to two consecutive terms, but there is no limit on the total number of terms one may serve ...
t. e. United States senators are conventionally ranked by the length of their tenure in the Senate. The senator in each U.S. state with the longer time in office is known as the senior senator; the other is the junior senator. This convention has no official standing, though seniority confers several benefits, including preference in the choice ...
Anti-Administration/ Federalist: Georgia: March 4, 1789 - March 3, 1801 4,381 dd John Langdon: Pro-Administration/ Anti-Administration/ Democratic-Republican: New Hampshire: June 6, 1802 December 6, 1808 Theodore Foster: Pro-Administration/ Federalist/ Democratic-Republican Rhode Island: June 7, 1790 - March 3, 1803 4,651 dd December 6, 1808 ...
January 3, 2021. January 3, 2023. Alabama's current congressional delegation in the 118th Congress consists of its two senators, both of whom are Republicans, and its seven representatives: 6 Republicans, 1 Democrat. The current dean of the Alabama delegation is Representative Robert Aderholt, having served in the U.S. Congress since 1997.