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Alabama Senate election, 1998: Senate District 29 [9] Party Candidate Votes % ±% Republican: Harri Anne Smith: 18,870 : 61.07 +61.07 : Democratic: Mac Palmer 11,973 ...
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).
The Alabama State Senate is composed of 35 state senators, in keeping with Article IV, Section 50, of the Alabama Constitution, which limits the Alabama House of Representatives to 105 members, and the senate to 35; together with Article IX, Sections 197 and 198, which requires that membership in the state senate consist of not less than one-fourth, nor more than one-third, of the total ...
The Senate is divided into three classes to stagger the terms of its members such that one-third of the Senate would be up for re-election every two years. Upon Alabama's admission to the Union in 1819, the state was assigned a Class 2 seat and a Class 3 seat, first elected in 1819 .
The 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama took place on December 12, 2017, in order for the winner to serve the remainder of the U.S. Senate term ending on January 3, 2021. A vacancy arose from Senator Jeff Sessions 's February 8, 2017, resignation from the Senate.
Alabama's 5th Senate district is one of 35 districts in the Alabama Senate. The district is currently vacant, as the incumbent Republican Greg Reed resigned in December 2024. The district covers the entirety of Fayette , Lamar , and Walker counties, as well as portions of Jefferson and Tuscaloosa counties.
Charles G. Armstrong is an American attorney and former officer of the United States Navy, best known for his 28-year tenure as president of the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball club, a position from which he stepped down on January 31, 2014.
Alabama's 32nd Senate district is one of 35 districts in the Alabama Senate. ... Charles A. Montgomery (1962–1966) [14] W. F. Wilson (1958–1962) [15]