Tommy Tuberville
Republican · AL · U.S. Senate
Tommy Tuberville is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026. Everett Wess vs. Barry Moore.
R +8 points of win probability since July.
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
- 5.7 years
- First took office
- 2021 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 82 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 72
- 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
Furry PilotsRecently Tommy Tuberville aka “America’s Dumbest Senator” made a statement that “Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community”. After looking in the mirror this morning I suppose I fit that description. …
Dailykos.com · October 5, 2026
'That was no coincidence!' Ex-Alabama senator explains Trump mystery puzzling punditsMany observers wondered why President Donald Trump would hold a rally in deep-red Alabama a month before the midterms. Former Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) says the timing gave it away.Jones, now the Democratic nominee for Alabama governor, appeared on MS NOW's "T…
Raw Story · October 3, 2026
Trump and Vance head to GOP strongholds, looking to give Republicans a midterm boostWASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance will both hit the campaign trail on Thursday, but they will be heading to heavily Republican areas to shore up lagging enthusiasm in their party ahead of next month’s midterm elections. Tru…
Yahoo Entertainment · October 1, 2026
It’s terrifying when you think about thisWe haven’t discussed the pressing question of just how many airline personnel are members of some furry subculture. Luckily Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-His Own Private Idaho) is making this a matter of discussion or more likely monologue on the floor of the US S…
Lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com · September 28, 2026
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