Adelbert Carl "Del" Marsh (born September 2, 1956) is a former
Republican member of the
Alabama Senate
The Alabama State Senate is the upper house of the Alabama Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. state of Alabama. The body is composed of 35 members representing an equal number of districts across the state, with each district con ...
, who represented the
12th District from 1998 until 2022. He defeated
Democratic challenger Judge Wallace Wyatt in the 2010 midterm elections. The next day, he was chosen as
President pro tempore of the Alabama State Senate by his colleagues. Since the succession of
Kay Ivey
Kay Ellen Ivey ( ; born October 15, 1944) is an American politician who is the 54th governor of Alabama, serving since 2017. A Republican since 2002, Ivey was the 38th Alabama state treasurer from 2003 to 2011 and the 30th lieutenant governor o ...
to the position of
Governor of Alabama
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of a state's official representative. Depending on the type of political region or polity, a ''governor'' ma ...
on April 10, 2017, until January 14, 2019, the office of lieutenant governor was vacant.
Career
In May 2019, he voted to make abortion a crime at any stage in a pregnancy, with no exemptions for cases of rape or incest.
In May 2019, he co-sponsored a bill to change Alabama's ethics laws to allow lobbyists to give unlimited gifts to lawmakers. Also on the bill were measures to decriminalize bribery and to redefine key terms of the ethics laws in order to loosen their power to prevent corruption.
In May 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Marsh proposed using $200 million of CARES Act relief for the building of a new state house. $1.8 billion was given to the Alabama state government to be used for expenditures caused by the pandemic.
References
External links
Alabama State Legislature – Senator Del Marshofficial government website
Project Vote Smart – Senator Del Marsh (AL)profile
*''Follow the Money'' – Del Marsh
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campaign contributions
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1956 births
Republican Party Alabama state senators
Auburn University alumni
Living people
Politicians from Anniston, Alabama
Politicians from Wheeling, West Virginia
21st-century members of the Alabama Legislature
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