Chief of Staff, Governor Robert Bentley
[tps_title]Seth Hammett, Chief of Staff, Governor Robert Bentley[/tps_title]
After spending more than a decade as Speaker of the Alabama House of Representatives as a Democrat, Hammett saw the incoming Republican wave and retired from public service.
Briefly.
As Hammett was exiting the scene, Robert Bentley, a little-known Republican House member from Tuscaloosa, was capping off his meteoric rise out of obscurity and into the Governor’s Mansion.
Hammett now serves as the governor’s chief of staff. Hammett’s rise, like a phoenix out of the ashes of the Alabama Democratic Party, is undoubtedly one of the most impressive and unlikely feats of sheer political survival in recent memory.
He is now among the most influential voices in the governor’s inner circle.
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