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1,130
family groupings listed on
The Political Graveyard web site.
These families each have three or more politician members,
all linked together by blood, marriage or adoption.
These groupings — even the names of the groupings,
and the areas of main activity — are the
result of a computer algorithm working with the data I have,
not the choices of any historian or genealogist.
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Richard Brevard Russell (1861-1938) —
also known as Richard B. Russell —
of Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.; Russell, Bartow
County, Ga.
Born near Marietta, Cobb
County, Ga., April
27, 1861.
Democrat. Lawyer; cotton planter; newspaper
editor; president, Hoschton Telephone
Co.; organizer, Athens Street
Railway Co.; member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1882-88; circuit judge in
Georgia, 1898-1906; candidate in primary for Governor of
Georgia, 1906; Judge,
Georgia Court of Appeals, 1907-16; chief
justice of Georgia Supreme Court, 1923-38; died in office 1938.
Member, American Bar
Association; Phi
Beta Kappa; Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Knights
of Pythias; Royal
Arcanum.
Died December
3, 1938 (age 77 years, 220
days).
Interment at Russell
Memorial Park, Winder, Ga.
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Richard Brevard Russell, Jr. (1897-1971) —
also known as Richard B. Russell, Jr. —
of Winder, Barrow
County, Ga.
Born in Winder, Barrow
County, Ga., November
2, 1897.
Democrat. Lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives from Barrow County, 1921-31; Speaker of
the Georgia State House of Representatives, 1927-31; Governor of
Georgia, 1931-33; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1933-71; died in office 1971; candidate for
Democratic nomination for President, 1952;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Georgia, 1952;
member, President's Commission on the Assassination of President
KNDY, 1963-64.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows; Kiwanis;
Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; American
Legion; Forty and
Eight; American Bar
Association.
Died in Washington,
D.C., January
21, 1971 (age 73 years, 80
days).
Interment at Russell
Memorial Park, Winder, Ga.; statue at State
Capitol Grounds, Atlanta, Ga.
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Relatives: Son
of Richard
Brevard Russell (1861-1938) and Ina (Dillard) Russell
(1868-1953); brother of Robert
Lee Russell; uncle of Robert
Lee Russell, Jr.. |
| |  | Political family: Russell
family of Winder, Georgia. |
| |  | The Russell Senate Office Building
(built 1903-08; named 1972), in Washington,
D.C., is named for
him. |
| |  | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| |  | Books about Richard B. Russell, Jr.:
Gilbert C. Fite, Richard
B. Russell, Jr., Senator from Georgia — Sally Russell,
Richard
Brevard Russell, Jr.: A Life of Consequence |
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Robert Lee Russell (1900-1955) —
of Georgia.
Born in Winder, Barrow
County, Ga., August
19, 1900.
U.S.
District Judge for the Northern District of Georgia, 1940-49; Judge
of U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, 1949-55.
Member, American
Judicature Society; American Bar
Association.
Died January
18, 1955 (age 54 years, 152
days).
Burial
location unknown.
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Robert Lee Russell, Jr. (1925-1965) —
of Barrow
County, Ga.
Born February
21, 1925.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II; member
of Georgia
state house of representatives from Barrow County, 1951-58;
member of Democratic
National Committee from Georgia, 1960-62; Judge,
Georgia Court of Appeals, 1962-65.
Died June 14,
1965 (age 40 years, 113
days).
Interment at Russell
Memorial Park, Winder, Ga.
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