Doug Jones (politician) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-07

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Doug Jones (politician)


00:02:14 1 Early life and education
00:03:07 2 U.S. Attorney
00:04:05 2.1 16th Street Baptist Church bombing case
00:05:23 3 Later legal career
00:06:16 4 U.S. Senate
00:06:20 4.1 2017 election
00:07:44 4.2 Tenure
00:08:39 4.3 Committee assignments
00:09:24 5 Political positions
00:10:40 5.1 Social issues
00:11:04 5.1.1 Abortion
00:11:45 5.1.2 Gun control
00:12:13 5.1.3 LGBT rights
00:12:40 5.2 Defense
00:13:18 5.3 Economy
00:13:49 5.4 Healthcare
00:14:36 5.5 Taxes
00:15:06 6 Personal life
00:15:36 7 Electoral history



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Gordon Douglas Jones (born May 4, 1954) is an American attorney, former prosecutor and politician serving as the junior United States Senator from Alabama since 2018. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was a United States Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 to 2001.
Jones was born in Fairfield, Alabama and is a graduate of the University of Alabama and Cumberland School of Law at Samford University. After graduating law school, he worked as a congressional staffer and then as a federal prosecutor before moving to private practice. In 1997, Jones was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama by President Bill Clinton. Jones' most prominent cases were the successful prosecution of two Ku Klux Klan members for the 1963 Birmingham church bombing that killed four African-American girls and the indictment of domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph. He returned to private practice at the conclusion of Clinton's term in 2001.
Jones announced his candidacy for United States Senate in the 2017 special election following the resignation of Republican Jeff Sessions to become U.S. Attorney General. After winning the Democratic primary in August, Jones faced his Republican opponent, former Alabama Supreme Court Justice Roy Moore. Jones was considered a longshot candidate in a deeply Republican state. A month prior to the special election, Moore was alleged to have sexually assaulted and otherwise acted inappropriately with several women, including some who were minors at the time. Jones narrowly won the special election, 50%–48%. He is a candidate for reelection in 2021.
Jones is the first Democrat to win statewide office in Alabama since Lucy Baxley was elected President of the Alabama Public Service Commission in 2008. Democrats had not represented Alabama in the U.S. Senate since 1997, when Howell Heflin left office. Richard Shelby had been elected to the Senate as a Democrat in 1992 but switched to the Republican Party in 1994 following the Republican Revolution in which the party won a majority of seats in both chambers of Congress.