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Richard Shelby

Richard Shelby
Richard Shelby, official portrait, 112th Congress.jpg
United States Senator
from Alabama
Assumed office
January 3, 1987
Serving with Luther Strange
Preceded by Jeremiah Denton
Chair of the Senate Rules Committee
Assumed office
January 3, 2017
Preceded by Roy Blunt
Chair of the Senate Banking Committee
In office
January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2017
Preceded by Tim Johnson
Succeeded by Mike Crapo
In office
January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007
Preceded by Paul Sarbanes
Succeeded by Chris Dodd
Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee
In office
January 20, 2001 – June 6, 2001
Preceded by Bob Graham
Succeeded by Bob Graham
In office
January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2001
Preceded by Arlen Specter
Succeeded by Bob Graham
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Alabama's 7th district
In office
January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1987
Preceded by Walter Flowers
Succeeded by Claude Harris
Member of the Alabama Senate
from the 16th district
In office
January 1971 – January 3, 1979
Preceded by Clint Reid
Succeeded by Ryan DeGraffenried
Personal details
Born Richard Craig Shelby
(1934-05-06) May 6, 1934 (age 82)
Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Political party Democratic (Before 1994)
Republican (1994–present)
Spouse(s) Annette Shelby (1960–present)
Children 2
Education University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (BA, LLB)
Birmingham School of Law (JD)
Signature
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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