Doug Jones (politician)

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Gordon Douglas Jones (born May 4, 1954) is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Jones was previously the United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 to 2001. As of 2026, he is the last Democrat to have won or held statewide office in Alabama. Jones was born in Fairfield, Alabama, and is a graduate of the University of Alabama and Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. After law school, he worked as a congressional staffer and as a federal prosecutor before moving to private practice. In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed Jones as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Jones's most prominent cases were the successful defense of Tom Posey, Ku Klux Klan supporter and alleged Iran Contra affair co-conspirator and the prosecution of two Ku Klux Klan members for the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four African-American girls and...

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