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Jeff Sessions

Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions, official portrait.jpg
84th United States Attorney General
Assumed office
February 9, 2017
President Donald Trump
Deputy Rod Rosenstein (Nominee)
Preceded by Loretta Lynch
United States Senator
from Alabama
In office
January 3, 1997 – February 8, 2017
Preceded by Howell Heflin
Succeeded by Luther Strange
44th Attorney General of Alabama
In office
January 16, 1995 – January 3, 1997
Governor Fob James
Preceded by Jimmy Evans
Succeeded by Bill Pryor
United States Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama
In office
February 1981 – March 23, 1993
President
Preceded by William Kimbrough, Jr.
Succeeded by Don Foster
Personal details
Born Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III
(1946-12-24) December 24, 1946 (age 70)
Selma, Alabama, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Mary Blackshear
Children 3
Education
Signature
Military service
Allegiance  United States
Service/branch  United States Army
Years of service 1973–1977
Rank US-O3 insignia.svg Captain
Unit

Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is an American politician and lawyer who is the 84th Attorney General of the United States. Sessions served as the junior United States Senator from Alabama from 1997 until 2017, and is a member of the Republican Party. From 1981 to 1993, he served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama, in 1993 he was fired from his job as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama by Bill Clinton two months into his first term. Sessions was nominated in 1986 to be a judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, but his nomination failed due to criticism of his record on civil rights, as well as allegations that he had made racially insensitive remarks. Sessions was elected Attorney General of Alabama in 1994, and to the U.S. Senate in 1996, being re-elected in 2002, 2008, and 2014.

During his time in Congress, Sessions was considered one of the most conservative members of the U.S. Senate. He opposed legal and illegal immigration and amnesty and supported expansion of the border fence with Mexico. He supported the major legislative efforts of the George W. Bush administration, including the 2001 and 2003 tax cut packages, the Iraq War, and a proposed national amendment to ban same-sex marriage. He opposed the establishment of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, the 2009 stimulus bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, and the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act. As the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, he opposed all three of President Obama's nominees for the Supreme Court.


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