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  1. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III (born December 24, 1946) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 84th United States attorney general from 2017 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party , he previously served as United States senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017 before resigning that position to serve as attorney general in ...

  2. Nov 18, 2016 · Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was born in Alabama in 1946. He was a child of the segregated South and came of age during the Civil Rights Movement. He went to college in his home state and ...

  3. Feb 9, 2017 · Who is Jeff Sessions?. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is a four-term junior senator from Alabama who, before being elected to that office in 1996, served as attorney general for the state.

  4. Nov 19, 2016 · Update: This story has been updated Jan. 10. Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, a Southern country lawyer turned senator who, according to congressional transcripts, repeatedly referred to a black ...

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  6. Nov 7, 2018 · But Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III, the recently forced out U.S. attorney general, used his office and position to undermine the rights and freedoms of people of color. From civil rights and ...

  7. Dec 30, 2002 · Another damaging witness--a black former assistant U.S. Attorney in Alabama named Thomas Figures--testified that, during a 1981 murder investigation involving the Ku Klux Klan, Sessions was heard ...

  8. Nov 8, 2019 · Born Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III, he is a lifelong Republican who worked as a lawyer and served in the US Army reserves before entering the political stage.