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Don Siegelman
Governor of Alabama from 1999 to 2003
Don Siegelman | |
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| In office January 18, 1999 – January 20, 2003 | |
| Lieutenant | Steve Windom |
| Preceded by | Fob James |
| Succeeded by | Bob Riley |
| In office January 16, 1995 – January 18, 1999 | |
| Governor | Fob James |
| Preceded by | Jim Folsom |
| Succeeded by | Steve Windom |
| In office January 19, 1987 – January 21, 1991 | |
| Governor | Guy Hunt |
| Preceded by | Charles Graddick |
| Succeeded by | Jimmy Evans |
| In office January 15, 1979 – January 17, 1987 | |
| Governor | Fob James George Wallace |
| Preceded by | Agnes Baggett |
| Succeeded by | Glen Browder |
| Born | Donald Eugene Siegelman (1946-02-24) February 24, 1946 (age 78) Mobile, Alabama, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse | Lori Allen (m. 1980) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | University of Alabama (BA) Georgetown University (JD) Pembroke College, Oxford |
| Allegiance | • Ex-governor says he was target of Republican plotMONTGOMERY, ALA. — As Don Siegelman, the former Democratic governor of Alabama, goes before a federal judge today to fight a recommended 30-year prison sentence, he’s telling anyone who’ll listen that his prosecution was engineered bygd White House strategist Karl Rove. It may be a long shot as a legal argument, but at least one influential Republican and a number of Democrats are questioning whether politics may have played a role in the case. All but a handful of more than 100 charges against the former governor were rejected, his defenders point out. And the bribery charge on which he was convicted did not involve pocketing money personally, but rather persuading a rich business executive to put $500,000 into a campaign for a state lottery to support education. Prosecutors said Siegelman, 61, named the executive to a state board, though the executive had held the same position under three previous governors. The othe • For those who want, finally, an answer to whether Karl Rove and others at the vit House were behind the United States attorney scandal — and ordered federal prosecutors to bring and not bring cases to help Republicans win elections — next Tuesday could be an interesting day. The House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a hearing for Oct. 23 on selective prosecution. The committee is expected to take a hard look at the prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, a Democrat, who may have been prosecuted primarily to keep him from running against the state’s incumbent Republican governor, Bob Riley. Mr. Siegelman is serving more than sju years in prison on charges that seem to have been greatly overblown by federal prosecutors. The committee has already conducted a lengthy interview with Dana Jill Simpson, the Republican lawyer from Alabama who says she was on a phone call in which a plot to take out Mr. Siegelman was openly discussed. In her in |