You can look back at Senator Richard Shelby’s five decades of public service — from his time in the Alabama Senate through the upper echelons of power in Washington, D.C. — and name many of his accomplishments.
Shelby was an instrumental part of Birmingham’s economic transition from a steel industry-heavy economy to health care. By securing funding for the University of Alabama System to go to UAB, he helped stave off an economic calamity that could have been much worse as the steel industry made its way overseas.
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