American politician and attorney (born 1954) Gordon Douglas Jones is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States senator from Alabama from 2018 to 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Jones was previously the United States attorney for the Northern District of Alabama from 1997 to 2001. As of 2026, he is the last Democrat to have won or held statewide office in Alabama. 423,115 views on December 13, 2017 — Wikipedia's most-read article that day. Also most read: Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Roy Moore, 2017 United States Senate special election in Alabama, Local-density approximation. Wiki link