Jefferson Sessions
U.S. Congressperson
1946 –
Who is Jefferson Sessions?
Jefferson Beauregard "Jeff" Sessions III is the junior United States Senator from Alabama. First elected in 1996, Sessions is a member of the Republican Party. He serves as the ranking minority member on the Senate Budget Committee.
From 1981 to 1993 he served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama. President Ronald Reagan nominated him to a judgeship on the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama in 1986, but he was not confirmed. Sessions was elected to Attorney General of Alabama in 1994. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996 and easily re-elected in 2002 and 2008. He and his colleague Richard Shelby are the state's first two-term Republican Senators since Reconstruction.
Sessions was ranked by National Journal in 2007 as the fifth-most conservative U.S. Senator, siding strongly with the Republican Party on political issues. He supported the major legislative efforts of the George W. Bush administration, including the 2001 and 2003 tax cut packages, the Iraq War, and a proposed national amendment to ban same-sex marriage. However, he was one of 25 senators to oppose the establishment of TARP.
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- Born
- Dec 24, 1946
Selma - Also known as
- Jeff Sessions
- Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III
- Jeff Sessions
- Parents
- Spouses
- Mary Blackshear Sessions
(1969 - )
- Mary Blackshear Sessions
- Children
- Religion
- Methodism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Juris Doctor, University of Alabama
( - 1973) - Bachelor of Arts, Huntingdon College
( - 1969) - University of Alabama School of Law
- Juris Doctor, University of Alabama
- Lived in
- Mobile
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on July 23, 2013
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