Background
Russell was born on December 27, 1903 in Lovelock, Nevada.
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Russell was born on December 27, 1903 in Lovelock, Nevada.
He graduated from the University of Nevada in 1926.
He was the 20th Governor of Nevada. He taught school in Ruby Valley for one term and then went to Ruth to work for the copper company. He was the editor of the Ely Record for seventeen years, beginning in 1929.
After that, he was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress, succeeding Democrat Berkeley L. Bunker, who ran unsuccessfully for the United States Senate.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress, narrowly losing to Reno City Councilman Walter South. Baring. He became the Governor in 1951 and served until 1959.
Russell died on September 13, 1989 in Carson City, Nevada, at the age of 85. He is interred at the Dayton Cemetery in Dayton, Nevada.
He was a member of the Republican Party. Russell was a member of the Nevada state Senate from 1941 to 1946.