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Senate Years of Service: 1933-1971 Party: Democrat
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RUSSELL, 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.
BibliographyAmerican 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.
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