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Gordon Douglas Jones born May 4, is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Alabama from to After law school, he worked as a congressional staffer and as a federal prosecutor before moving to private practice. Attorney for the Northern District of Alabama. Jones's most prominent cases were the successful prosecution of two Ku Klux Klan members for the Birmingham church bombing that killed four African-American girls and the indictment of domestic terrorist Eric Rudolph.

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He returned to private practice at the conclusion of Clinton's presidency in Jones announced his candidacy for United States Senate in the special election following the resignation of Republican incumbent Jeff Sessions to become U. Attorney General. Jones was considered a long-shot candidate in a deeply Republican state. A month before the election, Moore was alleged to have sexually assaulted and otherwise acted inappropriately with several women, including some who were minors at the time.

At the time, Jones was the only statewide elected Democrat in Alabama and the first Democrat to win statewide office since Lucy Baxley was elected President of the Alabama Public Service Commission in Democrats had not represented Alabama in the U. Senate since , when Howell Heflin left office. Jones was considered a fairly moderate Democrat, who supported reproductive and LGBT rights but demonstrated a willingness to work with Republicans and split with his party on certain issues.

His margin of defeat was the largest of an incumbent senator since In January , he joined CNN as a political commentator. Steel and his mother was a homemaker. He is a member of Beta Theta Pi.