John E. Russell

John Edwards Russell ( born January 20, 1834 in Greenfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, † October 28, 1903 in Leicester, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1887 and 1889 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Russell enjoyed a private school education. Later on, he dealt among other things with the postal system west of the Mississippi and steamship lines on the west coast. After his return to Massachusetts, he worked in agriculture. In 1880 he became Minister of Agriculture of his state. In this office he was re-elected five times in the following years. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1886, Russell was in the tenth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William W. Rice on March 4, 1887. Until March 3, 1889, he was able to complete a term in Congress. In June 1892 Russell was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where the former incumbent Grover Cleveland was again nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1893 and 1894 John Russell ran unsuccessfully for the office of each Governor of Massachusetts. He was also a member of the Deep Waterways Commission. He died on 28 October 1903 in Leicester.