Tommy Tuberville
Republican · AL · U.S. Senate
Bio
Thomas Hawley Tuberville is an American politician and retired college football coach and sports broadcaster who is the senior United States senator from Alabama, a seat he has held since 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party. Before entering politics, Tuberville was the head football coach at Auburn University from 1999 to 2008. He was also 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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.6 years
- First took office
- 2021 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 82 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 71
- Senate class
- 2 · senior senator
- Mobile, AL · 251-308-7233
- Huntsville, AL · 256-692-7500
- Birmingham, AL · 205-760-7307
- Montgomery, AL · 334-523-7424
- Dothan, AL · 334-547-7441
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $2.9M – $6.7M
- Liabilities
- $1.0M – $2.0M
- Net worth
- $885k – $5.6M
- Since 2020
- −$4.8M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Tommy Tuberville's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Tommy Tuberville (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Tubervillesits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Special Committee on Agingcenter · 13 members
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Tuberville's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Abdul El-Sayed Faced Wave of anti-Muslim Rhetoric“Hours after Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic Senate nomination in Michigan this month, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) called the man who could be the first Muslim senator a ‘TERRORIST’ and ‘RADICAL ISLAMIST’ on social media,” the Washington Post reports. ”Tub…
Politicalwire.com · Yesterday
Chatbot Does Research, Keeps Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville Company on Long Drives Across His StateSen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) said he lets a bot keep him company on long drives across his home state, chatting with the voice of artificial intelligence as it does legwork on some of his favorite issues. The post Chatbot Does Research, Keeps Alabama Sen. Tom…
Breitbart News · August 16, 2026
Tommy Tuberville asks ChatGPT how to vote during long Alabama drivesSen. Tommy Tuberville has found a way to pass the long drives across Alabama: chatting out loud with ChatGPT about major policy issues.The Alabama Republican, now eyeing the governor's mansion, peppers the bot with questions about Medicare and Medicaid and li…
Raw Story · August 13, 2026
Trump Admin Permanently Guts Law 'Designed to Stop Criminals from Laundering Money' After Push From Elon MuskCritics are warning that the Trump administration just made financial crimes a lot easier to commit by permanently gutting a law that prevented criminals from using shell companies to obscure their activities. Elon Musk may benefit.On Tuesday, the Treasury's …
Common Dreams · August 13, 2026
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