Terry Edward Branstad is an American politician and former diplomat. A member of the Republican Party,he served three terms in the Iowa House of Representatives from 1973 to 1979 before serving as the 39th Governor of Iowa from 1983 to 1999 and again as the 42nd Governor of the state from 2011 to 2017. He is the longest-serving governor in United States history. Branstad served as the United States Ambassador to China from 2017 to 2020 under President Donald Trump.
John Jackson Sparkman was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat,Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives from 1937 to 1946 and the United States Senate from 1946 until 1979. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for vice president in the 1952 presidential election.
Edmund Winston Pettus was a lawyer and politician who represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1897 to 1907. He served as a senior officer of the Confederate States Army,commanding infantry in the Western Theater of the American Civil War. After the war,he was Grand Dragon,or supreme leader of the Ku Klux Klan,that terrorized and often killed African-Americans.
Spencer Thomas Bachus III is an American politician. He is a former U.S. Representative for the state of Alabama,serving from 1993 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party,he served as ranking member (2007–2011) and chairman (2011–2013) of the House Financial Services Committee. On September 30,2013,Bachus announced his retirement from Congress. His term ended in 2015.
Richard Taylor Rives was an American lawyer and judge. A native of Alabama,he was the sole Democrat among the "Fifth Circuit Four," four United States circuit judges of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in the 1950s and 1960s that issued a series of decisions crucial in advancing the civil and political rights of African-Americans. At that time,the Fifth Circuit included not only Louisiana,Mississippi,and Texas,but also Alabama,Georgia,and Florida,and the Panama Canal Zone.
Robert Ten Broeck Stevens was an American businessman and former chairman of J. P. Stevens and Company,which was one of the most established textile manufacturing plants in the US. He served as the Secretary of the Army between February 4,1953,until July 21,1955.
James Elisha 'Jim' Folsom Jr. is an American politician who was the 50th governor of Alabama from April 22,1993,to January 16,1995. He has also served as the lieutenant governor of Alabama on two occasions. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Howell Thomas Heflin was an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party,he represented Alabama in the United States Senate from 1979 to 1997.
John Hollis Bankhead was an American politician and Confederate Army soldier. A member of the Democratic Party,Bankhead served as U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama from 1907 until his death in 1920. Bankhead had additionally served in the United States House of Representatives,the Alabama Legislature,and as warden of the state penitentiary in Wetumpka.
Thomas Hawley Tuberville is an American politician and retired college football coach who is the senior United States senator from Alabama,a seat he has held since 2021. Before entering politics,Tuberville was the head football coach at Auburn University from 1999 to 2008. He was also the head football coach at the University of Mississippi from 1995 to 1998,Texas Tech University from 2010 to 2012,and the University of Cincinnati from 2013 to 2016.
Christopher J. Connors is a New Jersey Republican Party politician,who served in the Senate from January 8,2008 to January 9,2024,where he represented the 9th Legislative District. He served in the General Assembly from January 9,1990 to January 8,2008.
Thomas Banks Cabaniss was a United States representative from Georgia.
Benjamin Leader Erdreich is an American lawyer and retired politician from Alabama. A member of the Democratic Party,he served five terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1983 to 1993.
Phill Hartsfield was a Southern California sword and knifemaker based in Garden Grove who is noted for popularizing the chisel ground blade in the western world. Hartsfield's designs have influenced other knifemakers,primarily Ernest Emerson.
The 1996 United States Senate election in Alabama was held on November 5,1996. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Howell Heflin decided to retire. Republican Jeff Sessions won the open seat,becoming the first of his party to win this seat since Reconstruction in 1868 and only the second Republican ever to be popularly elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama.
James M. Fail was an American financial executive who served as chairman of Stone Holdings,Inc. and Bluebonnet Savings Bank. A native of Mobile,Alabama,he attended Murphy High School and served for three years in the U.S. Navy. After graduating from the University of Alabama in 1949,he began his career as a securities salesman for Merrill Lynch. In the following decades,Fail and his holding companies have owned and operated a variety of investment,mortgage,banking,savings and loan,and insurance businesses throughout the U.S.
William Howard Steele is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Louis Mead Treadwell II is an American businessman and politician who served as the 11th lieutenant governor of Alaska from 2010 to 2014. Treadwell also served as chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission from 2006 to 2010. He is a member of the Republican Party and was a candidate for the 2014 U.S. Senate election in Alaska.
The 1990 United States Senate election in Alabama was held on November 6,1990. Incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Howell Heflin won re-election to a third term. As of 2024,it is the last time a Democrat was elected to the Class 2 Senate seat in Alabama until 2017,and the last time overall in which a Democrat was elected to and served a full term as a Democrat in the U.S. Senate from Alabama.
Jeffrey Uhlman Beaverstock is the chief United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
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