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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsWilliam Augustus RUSSELL
(1831-1899)
RUSSELL, William Augustus,
a Representative from Massachusetts; born at Wells River, Orange
County, Vt., April 22, 1831; pursued an academic course in
Franklin, N.H.; engaged in the manufacture of paper in Exeter,
N.H., in 1852; moved to Lawrence, Mass., in 1852, where he
continued in that business; member of the State house of
representatives in 1869; delegate to the Republican National
Conventions in 1868 and 1876; elected as a Republican to the
Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, and Forty-eighth Congresses (March 4,
1879-March 3, 1885); after leaving Congress devoted his time to the
manufacture of paper; died in Boston, Mass., January 10, 1899;
interment in Bellevue Cemetery, Lawrence, Essex County, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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