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Its United States Senate seats were declared vacant from March 1861 to July 1868 due to its secession from the Union during the American Civil War. Richard Shelby is Alabama's longest serving senator (served 1987–2023). Alabama's current U.S. senators are Republicans Tommy Tuberville (since 2021) and Katie Britt (since 2023).
Hovey started his political career serving as a city council member for Auburn, Alabama's 7th ward for 4 years. [2] In 2022 Hovey decided to run against three time incumbent Tom Whatley in the Republican primary for Alabama's 27th Senate District. [2] This race would end up being so close the Alabama GOP called it a tie. [3]
Each state elects two senators to serve for six years, and members of the House to two-year terms. Before becoming a state, the Alabama Territory elected a non-voting delegate at-large to Congress from 1818 to 1819. These are tables of congressional delegations from Alabama to the United States Senate and the United States House of Representatives.
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A member of the Republican Party, Britt is the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama and the youngest Republican woman to be elected to the Senate. [3] She was president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama from 2019 to 2021, and was chief of staff for her Senate predecessor, Richard Shelby, from 2016 to 2018.
He is a graduate of the Alabama Leadership Initiative and a member of the 30th Class of Leadership Alabama. [6] In 2020, Elliott was recognized as an Emerging Legislative Leader by the State Legislative Leaders Foundation and the University of Virginia 's Darden School of Business [ 7 ] and was named the Alabama Forestry Association's ...
Hightower's wife, Susan, ran for the Alabama House of Representatives seat for the 103rd district in 2013, but lost to Margie Wilcox. [3] Hightower won a special election to the Alabama Senate on March 12, 2013, to succeed Ben Brooks. [2] In 2014, the Sunlight Foundation ranked Hightower as the fourth-most conservative member of the state ...
Stewart was elected as a democrat to the Alabama Senate in the 23rd district on November 8, 2022. He received 53.4% of the vote against Republican Michael Nimmer's 44.6%. A difference of 8.8%, or about 4,000 votes. He was sworn in that night at midnight. [5] [6] Previously, in the democratic primary, Stewart defeated Hank Sanders. [2] [7]