# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-shelby
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:35:53.064Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-shelby"
name: "Richard Shelby"
slug: "richard-shelby"
description: "Richard Craig Shelby is an American lawyer and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 1987 to 2023. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986 as a Democrat, Shelby switched to the Republican Party in 1994. Shelby is the longest-serving U.S. senator from Alabama, holding office for exactly 36 years."
tagline: "United States Senator from Alabama"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Shelby%2C_official_portrait%2C_112th_Congress.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1934-05-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 413
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump