Bradley Byrne

Bradley Byrne
Official portrait, 2014
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Alabama's 1st district
In office
January 8, 2014 – January 3, 2021
Preceded byJo Bonner
Succeeded byJerry Carl
Chancellor of the Alabama Community College System
In office
May 2007 – August 31, 2009
Preceded byRoy Johnson[1]
Succeeded byFreida Hill[2]
Member of the Alabama Senate
from the 32nd district
In office
November 2002 – January 2007
Preceded byAlbert Lipscomb
Succeeded byTrip Pittman
Member of the
Alabama State Board of Education
from the 1st district
In office
January 3, 1995 – January 4, 2003
Preceded byJohn Tyson[3]
Succeeded byRandy McKinney[4]
Personal details
Born
Bradley Roberts Byrne

(1955-02-16) February 16, 1955 (age 69)
Mobile, Alabama, U.S.
Political partyRepublican (1997–present)
Other political
affiliations
Democratic (before 1997)
Spouse
Rebecca Dukes
(m. 1982)
Children4
EducationDuke University (BA)
University of Alabama (JD)

Bradley Roberts Byrne (born February 16, 1955[5]) is an American attorney and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Alabama's 1st congressional district from 2014 to 2021. Elected as a member of the state Board of Education as a Democrat in 1994, he became a member of the Republican Party in 1997, and served in the Alabama Senate from 2003 to 2007, representing the state's 32nd district.[6]

Byrne was chancellor of the Alabama Community College System from 2007 until he resigned in 2009 to run for the 2010 Republican nomination for governor of Alabama.[7][8] In December 2013 he won a special election to represent the state's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. Byrne ran in the Republican primary for the 2020 United States Senate election in Alabama, but was defeated in the first round of the primary by Tommy Tuberville and Jeff Sessions.[9][10]

  1. ^ "Byrne Picked as New Two-Year System Chancellor". Alabama Public Radio. May 11, 2007. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
  2. ^ Diel, Stan (November 12, 2009). "Freida Hill hired to run Alabama's two-year college system". al.
  3. ^ "Our Campaigns - State Board of Education 1 Race - Nov 08, 1994". www.ourcampaigns.com.
  4. ^ "Our Campaigns - State Board of Education 1 Race - Nov 07, 2000". www.ourcampaigns.com.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference BioDirect was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ "Full Biography". House.gov. December 11, 2012. Archived from the original on February 6, 2019. Retrieved November 16, 2017.
  7. ^ "ACCS Press Release: State Board of Education appoints Joan Davis as interim chancellor" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on March 18, 2010.
  8. ^ "Byrne for Alabama". Archived from the original on September 18, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2010.
  9. ^ Chandler, Kim (February 20, 2019). "GOP's Byrne to challenge Sen. Doug Jones of Alabama in 2020". Associated Press. Retrieved February 20, 2019.
  10. ^ "Alabama U.S. Senate Primary Election Results". The New York Times. October 28, 2020.

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