Sen. Richard Shelby, 88, said he plans to retire from Capitol Hill and head home to “mow the lawn.” He will spend time with his wife of 62 years, Annette, “read a few books,” “give no advice” and “not get involved in other people’s campaigns.”
Instead of farming, Shelby said he plans to retire from the Capitol Hill battlefield and head home to “mow the lawn.”
. At that point, it will be the official end of 51 consecutive years of elected political service for Shelby. Of those, 44 years were spent in Congress including the past 36 years in the U.S. Senate. A social conservative, Shelby has never sought the spotlight and was not someone considered as a panderer for the cable TV networks or talk radio. While he has critics, there are enemies who will consistently bash him in public.
After college, Shelby became a lawyer and a city prosecutor in Tuscaloosa in the 1960s. At the age of 35, he entered legislative politics when he ran for the Alabama State Senate in 1970 and served in the Alabama Legislature as a pro-union Democrat until 1978. Shelby, by all accounts, outhustled Denton and pulled off what was considered an upset at the time, winning the 1986 Senate election by fewer than 7,000 votes. Denton initially refused to concede and appointed a special committee to study more than 900 allegations of voter fraud at the time. Denton conceded two weeks after the election.
The emerging Clinton-Shelby feud animated 1993. Clinton, according to media reports at the time, transferred 90 top NASA jobs out of Alabama after Shelby opposed his budget. Two months before he switched parties, Shelby was the lone Democratic vote in support of a Republican bid to derail Clinton’s crime bill.
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