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 governor of Iowa from 1983 to 1999 and again 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 intimidated and often killed African-Americans.
David Lee Hobson is an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party who served as a U.S. representative from the seventh congressional district of Ohio from 1991 to 2009.
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 who 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.
Thomas Banks Cabaniss was a United States representative from Georgia.
Benjamin Leader Erdreich is an American lawyer and former congressman from Alabama. From 1983 to 1993,he served five terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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.
UltraTech Cement Limited is an Indian multinational cement company based in Mumbai. It is the largest manufacturer of grey cement,ready-mix concrete (RMC) and white cement in India and 5th largest around the globe with an installed capacity of 133 million tonnes per annum and 105.71 million tonnes per annum sales volume.
Shree Cement is an Indian cement manufacturer,founded in Beawar,Rajasthan,in 1979. Now headquartered in Kolkata,it is India's third largest cement producer and second largest cement company by market capitalisation. Shree Cement has moved in the last two decades from having 2 million tonne (mt) production capacity to becoming the country’s third largest cement player,with an installed capacity of 43.3 mt in India and 47.4 mt overseas. It also produces and sells power under the name Shree Power and Shree Mega Power.
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 in the U.S. Senate from Alabama.
Jeffrey Uhlman Beaverstock is the Chief United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.
Katie Elizabeth Britt is an American politician,businesswoman,and attorney who is the junior United States senator from Alabama since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,Britt is the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama and the youngest Republican woman ever elected to the Senate. She was president and CEO of the Business Council of Alabama from 2019 to 2021,and was chief of staff for her Senate predecessor,Richard Shelby,from 2016 to 2018.
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