Saxby Chambliss
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United States Senator from Georgia |
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In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Max Cleland |
| Succeeded by | David Perdue |
| Chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee | |
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In office January 3, 2005 – January 3, 2007 |
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| Preceded by | Thad Cochran |
| Succeeded by | Tom Harkin |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia's 8th district |
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In office January 3, 1995 – January 3, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Roy Rowland |
| Succeeded by | Mac Collins |
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Clarence Saxby Chambliss November 10, 1943 Warrenton, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Julianne Frohbert (1966–present) |
| Children | Lia Bo |
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Louisiana Tech University University of Georgia University of Tennessee, Knoxville |
| Religion | Anglicanism |
Clarence Saxby Chambliss (born November 10, 1943) is an American politician who was a United States Senator from Georgia from 2003 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a U.S. Representative from 1995 to 2003.
During his four terms in the House, Chambliss served on the United States House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and chaired the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, which oversaw investigations of the intelligence community after the September 11 attacks in 2001.
During his 2002 bid for the U.S. Senate, Chambliss focused on the issue of national defense and homeland security. He won with 53% of the vote. For several years he was the ranking Republican on the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry, and chaired the committee during the 109th Congress (2005–2007). In the 112th Congress (2011–2012) he was the ranking Republican on the Select Committee on Intelligence.
Chambliss has a conservative voting record in the Senate, but he has participated in some bipartisan legislation. In December 2011 the Washington Post named Chambliss and the "Gang of Six" as one of the Best Leaders of 2011 for attempts to craft a bipartisan deficit reduction package.
On January 24, 2013, Chambliss announced that he would not be running for a third term.
Chambliss was born in Warrenton, North Carolina, the son of Emma Baker (née Anderson) and Alfred Parker Chambliss, Jr., an Episcopalian minister. He graduated from C.E. Byrd High School in Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1961. He attended Louisiana Tech University from 1961–1962 and earned a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Georgia in 1966, working his way through college at a bakery in Athens. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1968. He is a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity.
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