Richard M. Russell

Richard Manning Russell ( March 3, 1891 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, † February 27, 1977 in Essex, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1937 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Russell attended the Middlesex School in Concord and then studied until 1914 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree in 1919 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he went to work in Boston in this profession. In between, he participated as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army in the First World War. He was employed in France. After the war he began alongside his legal duties as a member of the Democratic Party and a political career. In the years 1926 and 1927 he sat in the council of Cambridge. Between 1930 and 1935 he was mayor there.

In the congressional elections of 1934, Russell was in the ninth election district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Robert Luce took up on January 3, 1935, whom he had beaten in the election. Since he lost in 1936 against Luce, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1937 while the other New Deal legislation of the Federal Government were adopted under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Richard Russell practiced as a lawyer again. In 1950 he applied unsuccessfully to return to Congress. He died on 27 February 1977 in Essex.