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Richard Craig Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 1987 to 2023. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 as a Democrat who later switched to the Republican Party in 1994, he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee from 2018 to 2021.
May 8, 2024 · Richard Shelby (born May 6, 1934, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.) is an American politician who was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate in 1986 and represented Alabama from 1987 to 2023; in 1994 he joined the Republican Party. He previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives (1979–87).
Dec 26, 2022 · Mr. Shelby, who is retiring at 88, is one of the last of the big-time pork barrel legends who managed to sustain the flow of money to his state even as anti-spending fervor gripped his party...
Dec 24, 2022 · In 1992, running as a conservative Democrat not aligned with his party’s presidential nominee, Richard C. Shelby cruised to victory with 65 percent of Alabama’s vote.
Dec 19, 2022 · Richard Shelby is leaving the Senate after 36 years with arrows lodged in his back — by his own party. Shelby is coming under heavy fire from conservatives for cutting one last deal with...
Nov 28, 2022 · Alabama's Richard Shelby is retiring after the longest tenure of any senator from Alabama in Washington, D.C., and the senator plans to head home to a quiet retirement in Tuscaloosa.
Nov 28, 2022 · U.S. Senator Richard Shelby, a Republican from Tuscaloosa, is retiring from the U.S. Senate when the 118th Congress is sworn into office on Jan. 3. Shelby, 88, was recently asked how Alabamians...
