The people listed below were all born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with Selma, Alabama:
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- David Abner â former member of the Texas Legislature
- Ann Bedsole â member of both houses of the Alabama State Legislature 1979âÂÂ1995 from Mobile, born in 1930 in Selma
- Jo Bonner â U.S. representative from 2003 to 2013
- Janice Bowling â member of the Tennessee Senate
- Jim Clark â Selma sheriff during the 1965 voting rights campaign
- George Henry Craig, former U.S. Congressman for the 4th District of Alabama
- William Benjamin Craig â U.S. representative from 1907 to 1911
- Suzan DelBene â U.S. representative for Washington's 1st congressional district
- Jeremiah Haralson â U.S. representative from 1875 to 1877
- Sam Hobbs â U.S. representative from 1935 to 1951
- Truman McGill Hobbs â United States federal judge
- Michael W. Jackson â district attorney
- Thomas S. Kenan â U.S. representative from 1805 to 1811
- William Rufus King â vice president of the United States, U.S. senator, minister to France
- William Lehman â U.S. representative from 1973 to 1993
- John Tyler Morgan â U.S. senator from 1877 to 1907, major general, CSA
- James Perkins, Jr. â first African American mayor of Selma
- Edmund Pettus â U.S. senator from 1897 to 1907, brigadier general, CSA
- Gaston A. Robbins, former U.S. Congressman for the 4th District of Alabama
- Jeff Sessions â United States senator
- Terri Sewell â 2010 Democratic representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district
- Charles M. Shelley, officer in the Confederate military and former U.S. Congressman for the 4th District of Alabama
- Benjamin S. Turner â first African American elected to U.S. Congress from Alabama (1871â Republican)
- Hattie Hooker Wilkins â first woman elected to the Alabama Legislature
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