Birth Name: Richard Craig Shelby
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama
Date of Birth: May 6, 1934
Ethnicity: English, Irish
Family Background: Richard Shelby is the senior United States Senator from Alabama.
Shelby was the son of Ozie Houston Shelby and Alice Leon Skinner.
His paternal grandparents were William Cobb Shelby (the son of William Houston Shelby and Elizabeth Malone Shelby) and Violia McClendon.
His maternal grandparents were Thomas Hosea Skinner (the son of Thomas H Skinner and Martha Olivia Perkins) and Mary Estelle Miller.
Source: Geni.com (focusing on father’s side of the family)
ancestry.com public records (focusing on Shelby’s mother’s side of the family)