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Richard Shelby
Richard Craig Shelby
(born May 6, 1934) is the senior
United States Senator
from
Alabama
. First elected to the Senate in 1986, he is the Chairman of the
United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
. Born in
Birmingham, Alabama
, Shelby received his law degree from the Birmingham School of Law in Birmingham, Alabama. He graduated in 1961. After law school, he went on to serve as city prosecutor (1963–1971). During this period he worked as a
U.S. Magistrate
for the
Northern District of Alabama
(1966–1970) and Special Assistant
Attorney General of Alabama
(1969–1971). He won a seat in the
Alabama Senate
in 1970. In 1978 he was elected to the
United States House of Representatives
from the
7th District
, where he was among a group of
Conservative Democrats
known as the
boll weevils
.
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