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  Russell, Richard M.
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NameRichard M. Russell
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Essex, Massachusetts , United States
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Born March 03, 1891
Died February 27, 1977 (85 years)
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InfoRUSSELL, 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.


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  11/07/1950 MA District 6 Lost 26.29% (-47.43%)
  02/14/1950 MA District 6 - Special Election Lost 27.13% (-45.52%)
  01/24/1950 MA District 6 - Special D Primary Won 39.44% (+7.04%)
  09/14/1948 MA US Senate - D Primary Lost 24.38% (-5.88%)
  07/11/1944 MA US Senate - Special D Primary Lost 25.52% (-8.38%)
  09/20/1938 MA Governor - D Primary Lost 5.96% (-35.17%)
  11/03/1936 MA District 9 Lost 44.01% (-6.62%)
  11/06/1934 MA District 9 Won 52.60% (+5.20%)
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