Clarence Saxby Chambliss was born on November 10,1943 and is an American lawyer and retired politician who was a United States Senator from Georgia from 2003 to 2015.
23 Facts About Saxby Chambliss
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Saxby Chambliss was first elected to the US Senate in 2002.
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Saxby Chambliss was re-elected to the Senate in 2008, but did not seek reelection in 2014.
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Saxby Chambliss was born in Warrenton, North Carolina, the son of Emma Baker and Alfred Parker Saxby Chambliss, Jr.
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Saxby Chambliss received his Juris Doctor from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1968.
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Saxby Chambliss is a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
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Saxby Chambliss was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1994 as one of the new conservative Republican congressmen whose elections caused the party to gain a majority in both houses of Congress.
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Saxby Chambliss faced a tough re-election fight in 1996 against Macon attorney Jim Wiggins, but breezed to reelection in 1998 and 2000.
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Less than a month after the September 11,2001, terrorist attacks, the House Intelligence Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security, which Saxby Chambliss chaired, investigated intelligence issues related to the attacks.
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In 2006, Saxby Chambliss was among several congressional Republicans and Democrats who returned campaign donations from Jack Abramoff.
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Saxby Chambliss received criticism from Democrats and Republicans for this advertisement.
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Saxby Chambliss won the election, receiving 53 percent of the votes to Cleland's 46 percent.
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Saxby Chambliss was accused of "harassing" a former sugar company executive.
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Saxby Chambliss was first elected to the US Senate in 2002.
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Saxby Chambliss was the Republican leader of the Gang of 10, a bipartisan group which worked to create a compromise surrounding the energy policy of the United States.
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On March 6,2013, Saxby Chambliss was one of 12 Senators invited to a private dinner hosted, and personally paid for, by President Obama at The Jefferson Hotel.
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Saxby Chambliss voted with 40 Republicans and five Democrats to stop the passage of the bill.
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In January 2014, Saxby Chambliss signed an amicus brief in support of Senator Ron Johnson's legal challenge against the US Office of Personnel Management's Affordable Care Act ruling.
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Saxby Chambliss's son, Bo, was a registered lobbyist for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
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Bo Saxby Chambliss lobbied on commodity futures trading issues that fell under legislative jurisdiction of the Senate Agriculture Committee, of which the Senator was a member.
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Saxby Chambliss's office enacted a policy that prevented Bo Saxby Chambliss from lobbying the Senator or his staff.
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Saxby Chambliss is a member of St Mark's Anglican Church in Moultrie, Georgia.
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Saxby Chambliss married Julianne Frohbert in 1966 and they have two children and six grandchildren.