Doug Jones (politician)
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United States Senator from Alabama Elect |
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Taking office January 3, 2018 |
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| Succeeding | Luther Strange |
| United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama | |
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In office September 8, 1997 – January 20, 2001 |
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| President | Bill Clinton |
| Preceded by | Claude Harris Jr. |
| Succeeded by | Alice Martin |
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Gordon Douglas Jones May 4, 1954 Fairfield, Alabama, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Louise New (m. 1992) |
| Children | 3 |
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University of Alabama (BS) Samford University (JD) |
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| Website | Campaign website |
Gordon Douglas Jones (born May 4, 1954) is an American attorney and politician. He is a former federal prosecutor, and is the United States Senator-elect from Alabama. Jones served as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 to 2001. He prosecuted the remaining two Ku Klux Klan perpetrators of the 1963 church bombing which killed four African-American girls, and also secured an indictment against the Atlanta Olympic Park Bomber.
Jones was the Democratic nominee in the 2017 U.S. Senate special election to fill the seat vacated by U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Election results reported on December 13, 2017 show he narrowly defeated Republican nominee Roy Moore. Jones is the first Democrat to win a United States Senate election in Alabama since Richard Shelby, who was elected as a Democrat in 1986 and 1992 but switched to the Republican Party in 1994.
Doug Jones was born in 1954 in Fairfield, Alabama, to Gordon and Gloria Jones. His father worked at U.S. Steel and his mother was a homemaker. Jones graduated from the University of Alabama with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science in 1976 and earned his Juris Doctor from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in 1979.
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