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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.
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).
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...
Richard C. Shelby, the Senator from Alabama - in Congress from 2021 through 2023
Mar 19, 2024 · Richard Craig Shelby (1934- ) served six terms in the U.S. Senate, from 1987 until 2023. His 36-year tenure in the Senate is so far the longest of any Alabamian. He is widely considered to have been one of the most important and successful Senators from the state, on par with John Sparkman, Lister Hill, and few others.
