Benjamin E. Russell

Benjamin E. Russell

Benjamin Edward Russell (born October 5, 1845 in Monticello , Jefferson County , Florida , †  December 4, 1909 in Bainbridge , Georgia ) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of Georgia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Benjamin Russell was a cousin of Rienzi Melville Johnston (1849–1926), who was US Senator for the State of Texas in 1913 . In 1854 he moved with his parents to Decatur County , Georgia, where he attended public schools. At the beginning of the Civil War he was a drummer in a Georgia regiment. During the last three years of the war he was a lieutenant in a unit from Florida.

After the war, Russell got into the press business. He published a newspaper in Bainbridge. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1877 he was a delegate to a meeting to revise the Georgia constitution; In 1880 he took part in the Democratic National Convention in Cincinnati , on which Winfield Scott Hancock was nominated as a presidential candidate. Russell was Mayor of Bainbridge in 1881 and 1882 before serving in the Georgia House of Representatives from 1882 to 1883 . He then worked from 1885 to 1890 as a postman in Bainbridge.

In the congressional elections of 1892 Russell was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Georgia , where he succeeded Henry Gray Turner on March 4, 1893 , who moved to the newly created eleventh district. After re-election in 1894, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until March 3, 1897 . In 1896, Russell renounced another candidacy for Congress. In the following years he worked again in the newspaper business. He died on December 4, 1909 in Bainbridge, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Benjamin E. Russell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Benjamin E. Russell in the database of Find a Grave (English)