Russell V. Mack

Russell V. Mack (1957)

Russell Vernon Mack (born June 13, 1891 in Hillman , Montmorency County , Michigan , †  March 28, 1960 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1947 and 1960 he represented the state of Washington in the US House of Representatives .

Career

In 1895 Russell Mack moved with his parents to Aberdeen, Washington state. There he attended public schools. In 1913 and 1914 he studied at Stanford University in California and then until 1915 at the University of Washington in Seattle . Then he began a journalistic career. As early as 1913 he was working as a reporter for the newspaper "Aberdeen Daily World". Between 1920 and 1934 he was its managing director. During the First World War Mack was a corporal in an artillery unit . Between 1934 and 1950 he was the owner and editor of the Hoquiam Daily Washingtonian newspaper.

Politically, Mack was a member of the Republican Party . After the death of MP Fred B. Norman in April 1947, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington DC when he was due for the third mandate of his state. There he took his seat from June 7, 1947. After he was confirmed in each of the following six regular congressional elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on March 28, 1960 . It was during this time that the Korean War and the events of the civil rights movement of the 1950s fell. In 1951, the 22nd amendment to the Constitution was passed in Congress.

Russell Mack died of sudden cardiac arrest on March 28, 1960 in the Congress Building. He was buried in Aberdeen. After a by-election, his mandate fell to Julia Butler Hansen from the Democratic Party .

Web links

• Russell V. Mack in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Russell V. Mack in the database of Find a Grave (English)