Question: Which member of The Alcatraz Gang represented Alabama as a U.S. Senator in the 1980's?
Context: The 2015 Alabama A&M Bulldogs football team represented Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (Alabama A&M) in the 2015 NCAA Division I FCS football season.  The Bulldogs were led by second-year head coach James Spady and played their home games at Louis Crews Stadium.  They were a member of the East Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.  They finished the season 3–8, 3–6 in SWAC play to finish in a tie for third place in the East Division. The 2012 Alabama A&M Bulldogs football team represented Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (Alabama A&M) in the 2012 NCAA Division I FCS football season.  The Bulldogs were led by 11th-year head coach Anthony Jones and played their home games at Louis Crews Stadium.  They were a member of the East Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference and finished the season with an overall record of seven wins and four losses (7–4, 6–3 SWAC). Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. (July 15, 1924 – March 28, 2014) was a U.S. Senator representing Alabama from 1981 to 1987, and a United States Navy rear admiral and aviator in the Vietnam War. Joseph Lister Hill (December 29, 1894 – December 20, 1984) was an American politician.  A member of the Democratic Party, he represented Alabama in the U.S. Congress for more than forty-five years, as both a U.S. Representative (1923–38) and a U.S. Senator (1938–69).  During his Senate career, he was active on health-related issues and served as Senate Majority Whip (1941–47).  At time of his retirement, Hill was the fourth-most senior Senator. The Alcatraz Gang was a group of eleven American prisoners of war (POW) held separately in Hanoi, North Vietnam during the Vietnam War because of their particular resistance to their North-Vietnamese military captors.  These eleven POWs were: George Thomas Coker, USN; Jeremiah Denton, USN; Harry Jenkins, USN; Sam Johnson, USAF; George McKnight, USAF; James Mulligan, USN; Howard Rutledge, USN; Robert Shumaker, USN; James Stockdale, USN; Ronald Storz, USAF; and Nels Tanner, USN. The 2014 Alabama A&M Bulldogs football team represented Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (Alabama A&M) in the 2014 NCAA Division I FCS football season.  The Bulldogs were led by first-year head coach James Spady and played their home games at Louis Crews Stadium.  They were a member of the East Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference.  They finished the season 4–8, 3–6 in SWAC play to finish in a tie for third place in the East Division. Reuben Chapman (July 15, 1799 – May 17, 1882) was an American lawyer and politician.  Born in 1799 in Bowling Green, Virginia, he moved to Alabama in 1824, where he established a law practice.  He represented Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1835 to 1847 and served as the 13th Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1847 to 1849.  He died in Huntsville, Alabama in 1882. The 2013 Alabama A&M Bulldogs football team represented Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University (Alabama A&M) in the 2013 NCAA Division I FCS football season.  The Bulldogs were led by 12th-year head coach Anthony Jones and played their home games at Louis Crews Stadium.  They were a member of the East Division of the Southwestern Athletic Conference and finished the season with a 4–8 record. Carol Elizabeth Moseley Braun, also sometimes Moseley-Braun (born August 16, 1947), is an American diplomat, politician and lawyer who represented Illinois in the United States Senate from 1993 to 1999.  She was the first female African-American Senator, the first African-American U.S. Senator for the Democratic Party, the first woman to defeat an incumbent U.S. Senator in an election, and the first female Senator from Illinois.  She was the only female U.S. Senator from Illinois until Tammy Duckworth who became the U.S. Senator from Illinois in January 2017.  From 1999 until 2001, she was the United States Ambassador to New Zealand.  She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination during the 2004 U.S. presidential election.  Following the public announcement by Richard M. Daley that he would not seek re-election, in November 2010, Braun began her campaign for Mayor of Chicago.  The former Senator placed fourth in a field of six candidates, losing the February 22, 2011, election to Rahm Emanuel. The Alabama Democratic Presidential Primary was held on Super Tuesday, February 5, 2008, and had a total of 52 delegates at stake.  The winner in each of Alabama's seven congressional districts was awarded all of that district's delegates, totaling 34.  Another 18 delegates were awarded to the statewide winner, Barack Obama.  The 52 delegates represented Alabama at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado.  Eight other delegates were chosen on March 1, 2008 during an Alabama Democratic Party Executive Committee meeting.  Those eight delegates attended the National Convention as officially unpledged.
Answer: Jeremiah Denton