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Richard Craig Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 1987 to 2023. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 as a Democrat who later switched to the Republican Party in 1994, he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee from 2018 to 2021.
Nov 28, 2022 · Alabama's Richard Shelby is retiring after the longest tenure of any senator from Alabama in Washington, D.C., and the senator plans to head home to a quiet retirement in Tuscaloosa.
Dec 24, 2022 · In 1992, running as a conservative Democrat not aligned with his party’s presidential nominee, Richard C. Shelby cruised to victory with 65 percent of Alabama’s vote.
Dec 26, 2022 · Mr. Shelby, who is retiring at 88, is one of the last of the big-time pork barrel legends who managed to sustain the flow of money to his state even as anti-spending fervor gripped his...
Nov 28, 2022 · U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, a Republican from Tuscaloosa, is retiring from the U.S. Senate when the 118th Congress is sworn into office on Jan. 3. Shelby, 88, was recently asked how Alabamians...
May 8, 2024 · Richard Shelby (born May 6, 1934, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.) is an American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1986 and represented Alabama from 1987 to 2023; in 1994 he joined the Republican Party. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–87).
Richard C. Shelby, the Senator from Alabama - in Congress from 2021 through 2023
Nov 27, 2022 · U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, 88, will retire from the Senate when the 118th Congress is sworn in on January 3, 2023. Shelby first became one of Alabama’s two senators 36 years ago on January 3...
Feb 8, 2021 · WASHINGTON — Senator Richard C. Shelby, a shrewd force in the Senate for more than 30 years and a longtime political powerhouse in his home state of Alabama, said on Monday that he would not seek...
Senator Richard Shelby Farewell Speech. Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) delivered his farewell address on the floor of the Senate.
