Alabama was admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819. The state elects U.S. senators to class 2 and class 3. Its United States Senate seats were declared vacant from March 1861 to July 1868 due to its secession from the Union during the American Civil War. Richard Shelby is Alabama's longest serving senator (served 1987–2023). Alabama's current U.S. senators are Republicans Tommy Tuberville (since 2021) and Katie Britt (since 2023).
List of senators
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Notes
- ^ a b Clay and Fitzpatrick along with several other senators announced they were withdrawing from the Senate on January 21, 1861, due to their states' decisions to secede from the Union. Clay's seat was declared vacant by the Senate on March 14, 1861, but Fitzpatrick's was vacant because his term ended on March 4, 1861.
References
- ^ Journal of the Senate of the State of Alabama. 1903. pp. 82–83.
- ^ Schlup, Leonard C.; Ryan, James Gilbert (February 16, 2018). Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age. M.E. Sharpe. ISBN 9780765621061 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Senator Pettus Re-elected". The New York Times. January 27, 1903. p. 3.
- ^ a b "NO CHOICE IN RHODE ISLAND". The New York Times. January 23, 1907. p. 1.
- ^ a b The Tribune Almanac and Political Register 1908. New York: The Tribune Association. 1908. p. 258.
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