Ronnie Flippo (Napoleon's World)

Ronnie Gene Flippo (born August 15, 1937) is a retired Democratic politician from the state of Alabama. Flippo served at all levels of the Alabama state government, serving as a United States Representative for Alabama's 5th district (based in Decatur and Gadsden in the north part of the state) from 1977 to 1997, as a United States Senator succeeding John Malcolm Patterson from 1997 to 2003, and as Governor of Alabama, the office he had always coveted, from 2003 to 2011. Flippo was a conservative Democrat in the House, who moderated somewhat in the Senate and particularly as Governor. He also served in the Alabama House and the Alabama Senate during the 1970s.