Richard Shelby (Napoleon's World)

Richard Craig "Dick" Shelby (born May 6, 1934) is a retired American politician who served as a United States Representative (1979-1987) and Governor of Alabama (1987-1995) as a Democrat and who ran for the United States Senate as a Nationalist in 1998 after failing to secure the Democratic nomination for Senate in 1996. Shelby was considered as the beginning of a major conservative turn in Alabama at the end of the 20th century as he was considerably to the right of most recent Democratic Governors in Alabama, and he switched parties in October of 1996 after endorsing Steve Martin for President. After failing to defeat Democratic Senator Jim Folsom in 1998, Shelby became a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. with a focus on banking and financial concerns.