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Shane Stringer

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ64010212
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Shane Stringer is an American politician and police chief in Creola, Alabama serving as a Republican member of the Alabama House of Representatives from the 102nd district. He assumed office on November 7, 2018.

Career

Stringer was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives in 2018. He also served as the chief of police in Satsuma, Alabama. He later resigned from his position to serve as a captain in the Mobile County Sheriff's Office. In May 2021, Stringer was fired from his position in the sheriff's office for sponsoring constitutional carry legislation. He is currently chief of police of Creola, Alabama.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Shane Stringer” as american politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Shane, Stringer and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q64010212. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from Shane Stringer” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.