1. Thomas Hawley Tuberville is an American politician and retired college football coach who is the senior United States senator from Alabama, a seat he has held since 2021.
71 Facts About Tommy Tuberville
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Tommy Tuberville was the head football coach at the University of Mississippi from 1995 to 1998, Texas Tech University from 2010 to 2012, and the University of Cincinnati from 2013 to 2016.
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Tommy Tuberville is the only Auburn football coach to beat in-state rival Alabama six consecutive times.
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Tommy Tuberville worked for ESPN as a color analyst for its college football coverage during 2017.
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Tommy Tuberville became Alabama's senior senator in 2023 when Senator Richard Shelby retired.
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For 10 months in 2023, Tommy Tuberville blocked all promotions of senior officers in the US military.
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Tommy Tuberville graduated from Harmony Grove High School in Camden in 1972.
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Tommy Tuberville attended Southern State College, where he lettered in football as a safety for the Muleriders and played two years on the golf team.
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Tommy Tuberville first coached at Hermitage High School in Hermitage, Arkansas.
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Tommy Tuberville was an assistant coach at Arkansas State University.
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Tommy Tuberville then went through the ranks at the University of Miami, beginning as graduate assistant and ending as defensive coordinator in 1993, winning the national championship three times during his tenure there.
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Tommy Tuberville got his first collegiate head coaching job in 1994 at the University of Mississippi.
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At Ole Miss, Tommy Tuberville became involved in the movement to ban Confederate flags from the football stadium by requesting that the students quit waving them during the home football games.
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Tommy Tuberville left Ole Miss after the 1998 season to take the head coaching job at Auburn University in Alabama.
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Tommy Tuberville subsequently punished Robinson by suspending him for the season opener, then allowed him to rejoin the team.
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Tommy Tuberville received the Associated Press College Football Coach of the Year Award, the American Football Coaches Association, the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association and the Walter Camp Football Foundation.
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Under Tommy Tuberville, Auburn had a winning record against its biggest rival, Alabama, and was tied with its next two most significant rivals, Georgia and LSU.
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Tommy Tuberville led Auburn to six straight victories over in-state rival Alabama, the longest win streak in this rivalry since 1982, the year Auburn broke Alabama's nine-year winning streak.
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Tommy Tuberville established himself as one of the best big-game coaches in college football, winning 9 of his last 15 games against top-10 opponents since the start of the 2004 season.
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Tommy Tuberville coached 19 players who were selected in the NFL draft, including four first-round picks in 2004, with several others signing as free agents.
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Tommy Tuberville coached eight All-Americans and a Thorpe Award winner.
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Thirty-four players under Tommy Tuberville were named to All-SEC.
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Tommy Tuberville's players were named SEC player of the week 46 times.
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Tommy Tuberville had two SEC players of the year and one SEC Championship game MVP.
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Tommy Tuberville fired offensive coordinator Tony Franklin on October 8,2008.
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Tommy Tuberville made a cameo appearance in the Academy Award-winning feature film The Blind Side.
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On December 31,2009, Tommy Tuberville expressed interest in becoming head coach of the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
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On January 9,2010, Tommy Tuberville was named head coach, and he was introduced at a press conference the next day.
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On January 18,2011, Texas Tech announced that Tommy Tuberville received a one-year contract extension and a $500,000 per year raise.
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Tommy Tuberville was responsible for the highest-rated recruiting class in Texas Tech history, securing the 18th-ranked recruiting class in 2011, according to Rivals.
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On November 10,2012, during a game against Kansas, Tommy Tuberville yanked the hat and headset off his graduate assistant Kevin Oliver.
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Immediately after the game, Tommy Tuberville said he was aiming for Oliver's shirt in an attempt to pull him off the field.
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Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby publicly reprimanded Tommy Tuberville, calling his act "unsportsmanlike".
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In 2025, Tommy Tuberville said he recruited Patrick Mahomes, who played at Texas Tech from 2014 to 2016, but Mahomes said that was not true.
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On December 8,2012, Tommy Tuberville resigned as head coach at Texas Tech in order to become the 38th head coach at the University of Cincinnati.
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Tommy Tuberville said in court filings that he was a victim, and had lost $450,000; he settled the investor lawsuit in October 2013 on undisclosed terms.
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In July 2023, a spokesperson for Tommy Tuberville said that the foundation had been under audit and had paused its activities, but that Tommy Tuberville was reforming it.
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Tommy Tuberville's campaign was described as "low-profile," with few pre-scheduled campaign appearances or press conferences.
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Tommy Tuberville opposes the right to an abortion and favors repealing the Affordable Care Act.
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Tommy Tuberville supports Trump's proposal to build a wall on the border with Mexico.
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Tommy Tuberville supports reducing the national debt through cuts to social programs, but opposes cuts to Social Security, Medicare, or Medicaid.
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Tommy Tuberville was endorsed by the National Right to Life Committee, America's largest anti-abortion organization.
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On November 26,2020, Tommy Tuberville announced that his chief of staff would be Stephen Boyd, who had been serving as assistant attorney general for the Office of Legislative Affairs at the US Department of Justice.
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On November 12,2024, Tommy Tuberville announced his candidacy for reelection for a second term in the 2026 elections.
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Tommy Tuberville was one of six Republican senators to vote against expanding the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which would allow the US Justice Department to review hate crimes related to COVID-19 and establish an online database.
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In February 2022, Tommy Tuberville dismissed "ridiculous" proposals to ban lawmakers from trading stocks.
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In May 2022, Tommy Tuberville introduced the Financial Freedom Act of 2022, which would allow for the inclusion of cryptocurrency in individual retirement accounts.
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Tommy Tuberville was among the 31 Senate Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, telling reporters, "This bill does not go nearly far enough to reform our broken budget".
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Tommy Tuberville just wants to make sure he doesn't have United States weapons in Ukraine pointing at Moscow.
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Tommy Tuberville voted in support of an objection to Arizona's electoral votes and an objection to Pennsylvania's electoral votes, which were both won by Biden.
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Tommy Tuberville was one of six Republican senators to support the former objection and one of seven to support the latter objection; the remainder of the Senate defeated the objections.
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On May 28,2021, Tommy Tuberville voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
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When Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization came before the Supreme Court in 2022, Tuberville signed an amicus brief supporting the overturning of Roe v Wade and its federal protection of abortion.
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In 2022, Tommy Tuberville responded to a question about the Respect for Marriage Act, which would federally codify same-sex marriage, by saying there was "no need for legislating on gay marriage".
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Tommy Tuberville has backed several bills intended to restrict various activities by transgender people.
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On March 29,2024, Tommy Tuberville accused the Democratic Party of being a "Satanic cult" in response to a tweet by the New York Post about the banning of religious-themed designs from the White House Easter Egg art contest.
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Tommy Tuberville's comment came at a time of widespread backlash by right-wing to far-right politicians and pundits after Biden publicly acknowledged International Transgender Day of Visibility, which fell on the same date as Easter in 2024.
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In December 2022, after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced an upcoming policy to allow pregnant service members leave and reimbursement of travel costs so that they may obtain legal abortions in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v Wade, Tuberville threatened to put a Senate hold on all military promotions in protest of the policy.
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The policy was instituted in February 2023, with Tommy Tuberville announcing a day later that he would hold all "civilian, flag, and general officer nominations" due to the "illegal expansion of DoD authority and gross misuse of taxpayer dollars" for abortions.
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On December 5,2023, Tommy Tuberville largely lifted his hold, which had blocked 451 promotions during the previous week; the Senate responded by promoting 425 military officers.
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In 2025, Tommy Tuberville praised Trump's proposal to have the US take over the Gaza Strip, calling it "a good idea".
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On May 10,2023, Birmingham-area radio station WBHM broadcast an interview in which Tommy Tuberville was asked whether he believed white nationalists should be allowed to serve in the military.
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Tommy Tuberville reported the comment to the United States Capitol Police, saying that Hayden had called for his "politically motivated assassination".
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At a March 11,2025, Committee on Veterans Affairs hearing on the mass termination of VA employees, Tommy Tuberville said that private companies with proprietary technology had solicited him to receive contracts to operate at the VA, and that these private companies would benefit the VA and should be strongly considered.
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On February 1,2023, Tommy Tuberville announced his committee assignments for the 118th Congress.
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Tommy Tuberville married Vicki Lynn Harris, from Camden, Arkansas, and a graduate of Harmony Grove High School, on December 19,1976.
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In 1991, Tommy Tuberville married Suzanne of Guilford, Indiana; they have two sons.
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Tommy Tuberville lost about $150,000 when the business closed in 2011.
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At Auburn, Tommy Tuberville participated in the Auburn Church of Christ.
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Tommy Tuberville's interests include "NASCAR, golf, football, hunting and fishing, [and] America's military".
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On December 24,2023, Tommy Tuberville was doxxed and swatted, along with other leading activists and politicians in the same time period.