Don Siegelman

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Donald Eugene Siegelman ( SEE-gəl-mən; born February 24, 1946) is an American politician and convicted felon who was the 51st governor of Alabama from 1999 to 2003. To date, he is the last Democrat as well as the only Roman Catholic to serve as Governor of Alabama. He is also the only person in Alabama's history to be elected to serve in all four of the top statewide elected offices: Secretary of State, Attorney General, Lieutenant Governor, and Governor. He served in Alabama politics for 26 years. In 2006, Siegelman was convicted on federal felony corruption charges and sentenced to seven years in federal prison. Following the trial, however, many questions were raised by both Democrats and Republicans about allegations of prosecutorial misconduct in his case. On March 6, 2009, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld key bribery, conspiracy, and obstruction counts against Siegelman and refused his request for a new trial. In October 2015, more than 100 former attorneys general and...

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