Gordon J. Russell

Gordon James Russell ( born December 22, 1859 in Huntsville, Alabama; † September 14, 1919 in Kerrville, Texas) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1902 and 1910 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

Gordon Russell attended the public schools of his home, the Sam Bailey Institute in Griffin (Georgia ) and the Crawford High School, also in Georgia. Then he studied until 1877 at the University of Georgia in Athens. In the meantime, he taught at Dalton as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree in 1878 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in Dalton to work in this profession. 1879 Russell moved to Texas. Since 1884 he lived in the local Van Zandt County. In 1890 he was district judge for a short time. From 1892 to 1896 was Russell Attorney in the Seventh Judicial District of Texas. Afterwards he worked until 1902 in the same district as a judge.

Politically, Russell was a member of the Democratic Party. After the death of Mr Reese C. De Graff Reid he was in the overdue election for the third seat of Texas as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 4 November 1902. After four elections he could remain until his resignation on 14 June 1910 at the Congress. This was after his appointment as a judge at the Federal District Court for the Eastern part of Texas, where he became the successor of the late David Ezekiel Bryant. This office he held until his death on September 14, 1919; he suffered from tuberculosis.