Don Siegelman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Don Siegelman

51st Governor of Alabama

Date of Birth: 24-Feb-1946

Place of Birth: Mobile, Alabama, United States

Profession: lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Donald Eugene Siegelman (; born February 24, 1946) is a former American politician, lawyer and convicted felon who held several elected offices in the state of Alabama. He served one term as the 51st Governor of Alabama from 1999 to 2003.
As of 2019, Siegelman is the last member of the Democratic Party, as well as the only Roman Catholic, to serve as Governor of Alabama. He is the only person in the history of Alabama to be elected to serve in all four of the top statewide elected offices: Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor and Governor.
He served in Alabama politics for 26 years. In 2006 Siegelman was convicted on federal felony corruption charges and sentenced to seven years in federal prison.
Following the trial, however, many questions were raised by both Democrats and Republicans, about allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in his case.On March 6, 2009, the 11th U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals upheld key bribery, conspiracy and obstruction counts against Siegelman and refused his request for a new trial.In October 2015, more than 100 former attorneys general and officials, both Democratic and Republican, contended that his prosecution was marred by prosecutorial misconduct; they have petitioned the United States Supreme Court to review the case.
Siegelman was released from prison on February 8, 2017, and is on supervised probation.
His probation ended in June 2019.