Feb 09, 2017 · A bitter battle as Sen. Sessions confirmed to be attorney general 02:50. WASHINGTON -- The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Sen. Jeff Sessions to be attorney general in the Trump administration ...
Feb 09, 2017 · Newly confirmed US Attorney General Jeff Sessions, seen February 2, 2017, voted present for his Senate confirmation vote, and when the tally was announced many senators broke into extended applause...
Feb 08, 2017 · According to media reports on 08 February 2017 the US senate has voted to confirm Sessions as US Attorney General. EPA/JIM LO SCALZO JIM LO SCALZO / EPA
Feb 08, 2017 · President Donald Trump stands with Attorney General Jeff Sessions on December 15, 2017 in Quantico, Virginia, before participating in the FBI National Academy graduation ceremony. NICHOLAS KAMM ...
Feb 09, 2017 · WASHINGTON — Senator Jeff Sessions was confirmed on Wednesday as President Trump’s attorney general, capping a bitter and racially charged nomination battle that crested with the procedural ...
Matthew WhitakerIn office November 7, 2018 – February 14, 2019PresidentDonald TrumpDeputyRod RosensteinPreceded byJeff Sessions20 more rows
Luther StrangeAppointed byRobert BentleyPreceded byJeff SessionsSucceeded byDoug Jones47th Attorney General of Alabama17 more rows
Sessions was elected Attorney General of Alabama in 1994. In 1996, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, and was re-elected in 2002, 2008 and 2014. During his Senate tenure, Sessions was considered one of the most conservative Senators.
President-elect Trump announced on November 18, 2016, that he would nominate Sessions to be Attorney General of the United States. Trump would later state in an August 22, 2018 interview with Fox News' Ainsley Earhardtthat the only reason he nominated Sessions was because Sessions was an original supporter during his presidential campaign. The nomination engendered supp…
Sessions was born in Selma, Alabama, on December 24, 1946, the son of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, Jr., and the former Abbie Powe. Sessions, his father, and his grandfather were named after Jefferson Davis, a U.S. senator and president of the Confederate States of America, and P. G. T. Beauregard, a veteran of the Mexican-American War and a Confederate general who oversaw the Battle of Fort Sumter that commenced the American Civil War. His father owned a general st…
Sessions was an Assistant United States Attorney in the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama beginning in 1975. In 1981, President Reagan nominated him to be the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Alabama. The Senate confirmed him and he held that position for twelve years. In 1993, Sessions resigned his post after Democrat Bill Clinton was elected President of the United States.
In 1986, Reagan nominated Sessions to be a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama. Sessions's judicial nomination was recommended and actively backed by Republican Alabama senator Jeremiah Denton. A substantial majority of the American Bar AssociationStanding Committee on the Federal Judiciary, which rates nominees to the federal bench, rated Sessions "qualified", with a minority voting tha…