who are alabama’s senators on the national level
List of United States Senators from Alabama Alabama was admitted to the Union on December 14, 1819, and elects senators to Class 2 and Class 3. Its Senate seats were declared vacant from March 1861 to July 1868 due to its secession from the Union during the American Civil War. Alabama's current senators are Republicans Luther Strange and Richard Shelby. On December 12, 2017, Democrat Doug Jones was elected in a special election to fill appointee Luther Strange's seat for the remainder of former Senator Jeff Sessions's term.