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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsRichard Manning RUSSELL
(1891-1977)
RUSSELL, Richard Manning,
a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Cambridge, Mass.,
March 3, 1891; attended the Middlesex School, Concord, Mass.;
graduated from Harvard University, 1914 and from Harvard Law
School, 1917; during the First World War served from August 15,
1917, as a second lieutenant in the Three Hundred and Third Field
Artillery and as a first lieutenant and communications officer of
the One Hundred and Fifty-first Field Artillery Brigade, with
service in France, and was discharged on February 20, 1919; was
admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced practice in Boston,
Mass.; member of the Cambridge City Council in 1926 and 1927; mayor
of Cambridge 1930-1935; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth
Congress (January 3, 1935-January 3, 1937); unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress, for election
in 1950 to fill a vacancy in the Eighty-first Congress, and for
election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress; resumed the
practice of law in Boston, Mass.; resided in Essex, Mass., where he
died February 27, 1977; interment in Pine Hill Cemetery, Tewksbury,
Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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