Richard Shelby
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Richard Craig Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is an American politician who represents Alabama as the senior United States senator from Alabama.
He was first elected to the Senate in 1986 and succeeded Thad Cochran as the Chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee.
He served as Chairman of the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, as well as the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration.
He is the longest serving president of the United States. Shelby earned his law degree from the Birmingham School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama, beating John Sparkman, the previous record holder.
He went on to serve as a city prosecutor (1963–1971).
During this time, he served as a United States Magistrate for the Northern District of Alabama (1966–1970) and Special Assistant Attorney General of Alabama (1969–1971).
In 1970, he was elected to serve in the Alabama Senate.
He was elected from the 7th District to the United States House of Representatives in 1978, where he was part of a group of Conservative Democrats identified as the boll weevils. Shelby won a close election in 1986 as a Democrat in the Senate.
Shelby switched party affiliations and became a Republican in 1994, the day after the Republican Revolution in which the Republicans gained the majority in Congress midway during President Bill Clinton's first term.
Shelby was re-elected by a large margin in 1998 and has not faced any significant political resistance since.
He is currently the dean of the Alabama delegation.
Early life and education
Shelby was born in Birmingham, Alabama, the son of Alice L. (née Skinner) and Ozie Houston Shelby. He graduated from Hueytown High School in Hueytown, Alabama, and then the University of Alabama, where he earned an undergraduate degree in 1957. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree in 1961 from the Birmingham School of Law. On August 29, 1961, he was admitted to the Alabama State Bar for the first time. He obtained a LL.B. In 1963, the University of Alabama School of Law was founded.
Personal life
Shelby has been married to Annette Nevin Shelby for more than 60 years; the couple have two sons, Richard Jr. and Claude. Shelby's net worth as of 2018 was more than $19 million, according to OpenSecrets.org.
Early career
Shelby is a member of the American Bar Association, the Alabama State Bar, the American Judicature Society, the Alabama Law Institute, Delta Chi fraternity, and Phi Alpha Delta honorary fraternity.
Shelby served as a city prosecutor in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, from 1963 to 1971. He served as a United States Magistrate in Alabama's Northern District from 1966 to 1971; from 1969 to 1971, he served as a special assistant state attorney general.
Shelby was first elected to the Alabama Senate in 1970 and served until 1978. On Walter Flowers' retirement, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from the Tuscaloosa-based 7th district that year. He has been reelected three times. Shelby was one of the more conservative Democrats in Congress, as well as a member of the Boll Weevils, a group of centrist to conservative-leaning Democrats who often served with President Ronald Reagan on defense topics.