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Robert Renfroe Riley (born October 3, 1944) is an American retired politician and businessman who served as the 52nd governor of Alabama from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for Alabama's 3rd congressional district from 1997 to 2003. Early life, education and early career.
Robert Renfroe "Bob" Riley was the Republican governor of Alabama from 2003 to 2011. He was first elected in 2002 and was re-elected during the 2006 mid-term election. He was succeeded by Republican Robert Bentley in January 2011. Biography
Nov 4, 2016 · Robert Renfroe "Bob" Riley (born October 3, 1944 in Talladega) was Governor of Alabama, from 2003 to 2010. Riley was raised on his family's farm near Ashland, a small town in Clay County where his family ranched and farmed for six generations.
Jul 7, 2023 · Bob Riley became the state's 55th governor and the third Republican governor in the modern era. Bob Riley in Prattville Riley began as governor by eliminating $40 million in special interest, or pork-barrel, projects passed earlier by the state legislature.
Jan 20, 2003 · Riley was elected to represent Alabama’s third congressional district in 1996 and won reelection in 1998 and 2000, serving a total of three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was elected governor of Alabama in 2002 and won reelection to a second term in November 2006.
Governor Bob Riley was sworn into office as Alabama’s 52nd chief executive on January 20, 2003, after representing the state for six years in the United States Congress. In 1996, Governor Riley, then 52, ran a successful Congressional campaign in his first run for state or national office and kept his pledge to serve only three terms.
On December 21, 2020, Riley passed away at age 69. He had always wanted his brain studied after death, and researchers at the VA-BU-CLF Brain Bank diagnosed him with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE). Judy is sharing her husband’s story to detail how CTE affected Bob and to advocate against youth tackle football.
