Richard Shelby
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United States Senator from Alabama |
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Assumed office January 3, 1987 Serving with Luther Strange |
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| Preceded by | Jeremiah Denton |
| Chair of the Senate Rules Committee | |
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Assumed office January 3, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Roy Blunt |
| Chair of the Senate Banking Committee | |
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In office January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Tim Johnson |
| Succeeded by | Mike Crapo |
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In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Paul Sarbanes |
| Succeeded by | Chris Dodd |
| Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee | |
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In office January 20, 2001 – June 6, 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Bob Graham |
| Succeeded by | Bob Graham |
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In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Arlen Specter |
| Succeeded by | Bob Graham |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama's 7th district |
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In office January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1987 |
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| Preceded by | Walter Flowers |
| Succeeded by | Claude Harris |
| Member of the Alabama Senate from the 16th district |
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In office January 1971 – January 3, 1979 |
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| Preceded by | Clint Reid |
| Succeeded by | Ryan DeGraffenried |
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Richard Craig Shelby May 6, 1934 Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. |
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Democratic (Before 1994) Republican (1994–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Annette Shelby (1960–present) |
| Children | 2 |
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University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (BA, LLB) Birmingham School of Law (JD) |
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| Website | Senate website |
Richard Craig "Dick" Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is the senior United States Senator from Alabama. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration. He also serves on the Senate Appropriations Committee and the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Shelby received his law degree from the Birmingham School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1961. After law school in 1963, he went on to serve as city prosecutor (1963–1971). During this period he worked as a U.S. Magistrate for the Northern District of Alabama (1966–1970) and Special Assistant Attorney General of Alabama (1969–1971). He won a seat in the Alabama Senate in 1970. In 1978, he was elected from the 7th District to the United States House of Representatives, where he was among a group of Conservative Democrats known as the boll weevils.
In 1986, Shelby won a tight race as a Democrat for the U.S. Senate. Partway through his second term, he switched to the Republican Party in 1994, the day after the Republican Revolution in which they gained the majority in Congress in midterm elections midway through President Bill Clinton's first term. Shelby was re-elected by a large margin in 1998 and has faced no significant electoral opposition since. He is currently the dean of the Alabama delegation.
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