Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Name the former U.S. attorney general, also a former U.S. senator from Alabama, who suddenly resigned on Wednesday."
...Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 84th and current Attorney General of the United States since 2017. A Republican, Sessions served as United States Senator from Alabama from 1997 to 2017, resigning the position in order to serve in the Trump administration.