Richard Shelby, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Richard Shelby

United States Senator from Alabama

Date of Birth: 06-May-1934

Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, United States

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

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About Richard Shelby

  • Richard Craig Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Alabama.
  • First elected to the U.S.
  • Senate in 1986, he is the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, succeeding Thad Cochran.
  • He previously served as Chairman of the U.S.
  • Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.
  • He is the longest serving U.S.
  • Senator from Alabama, surpassing John Sparkman who held the previous record.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.
  • In 1994, the day after the Republican Revolution in which the GOP gained the majority in Congress midway through President Bill Clinton's first term, Shelby switched party affiliations and became a Republican.
  • 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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