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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—GeorgiaRichard Brevard RUSSELL, Jr.
(1897-1971)
Senate Years of Service:
1933-1971Party: DemocratRUSSELL, Richard Brevard,
Jr., a Senator from Georgia; born in Winder, Barrow County,
Ga., November 2, 1897; attended the public schools; graduated from
the Seventh District Agricultural and Mechanical School, Powder
Springs, Ga., in 1914, from Gordon Institute, Barnesville, Ga., in
1915, and from the law department of the University of Georgia at
Athens in 1918; admitted to the bar and commenced practice at
Winder, Ga., in 1919; served with the United States Naval Reserve
in 1918; member, State house of representatives 1921-1931, serving
as speaker 1927-1931; Governor of Georgia 1931-1933; elected on
November 8, 1932, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of William J. Harris; reelected in
1936, 1942, 1948, 1954, 1960 and 1966 and served from January 12,
1933, until his death; served as President pro tempore of the
Senate during the Ninety-first and Ninety-second Congresses;
chairman, Committee on Immigration (Seventy-fifth through
Seventy-ninth Congresses), Committee on Manufactures (Seventy-ninth
Congress), Committee on Armed Services (Eighty-second and
Eighty-fourth through Ninetieth Congresses), Committee on
Appropriations (Ninety-first Congress); died on January 21, 1971,
in Washington, D.C.; interment in Russell Memorial Park, Winder,
Ga.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Fite, Gilbert C. Richard B.
Russell, Jr., Senator From Georgia. Chapel Hill: University of
North Carolina Press, 1991; Goldsmith, John A. Colleagues:
Richard B. Russell and His Apprentice, Lyndon B. Johnson.
Washington: Seven Locks Press, 1993.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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