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Doug Jones recites an excerpt of Letter from Birmingham Jail on the Senate floor. Recorded April 10, 2019. Gordon Douglas Jones (born May 4, 1954) is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 2018 to 2021. [1][2] A member of the Democratic Party, Jones was previously the United States Attorney ...
Incumbent senator Doug Jones, first elected in a 2017 special election in what was widely labeled a major upset, ran for a full term, facing Tommy Tuberville in the general election. This race was one of two Democratic-held U.S. Senate seats up for election in 2020 in a state President Trump won in 2016. [2]
Doug Jones defeated Roy Moore by a margin of 21,924 votes. Voter turnout was 40.54% of Alabama's 3,326,812 [440] registered voters. Jones won primarily by running up huge margins in the state's major cities, as well as winning 96% of African American voters.
Doug Jones, a former U.S. attorney who prosecuted Ku Klux Klan members for an infamous 1963 church bombing in Birmingham, will be the first Democrat to represent Alabama in the Senate in 20 years.
The former Democratic senator is rejuvenated by guiding the first Black woman tapped as a justice. His former colleagues wonder if there's more to come. Doug Jones got Jackson to the SCOTUS precipice.
Roy Moore refused to concede to Doug Jones Tuesday evening after the Democrat defeated him in the race for Jeff Sessions’ former Senate seat.
Tommy Tuberville (R) Katie Britt (R) 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 ...
Doug Jones, who scored an upset victory last week in Alabama, said on Sunday he did not believe Trump needed to resign over allegations against him. Doug Jones not joining calls for Trump ...