James McPherson Russell
U.S. Congressperson
1786 – 1870
Who was James McPherson Russell?
James McPherson Russell was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
James M. Russell was born in York, Pennsylvania. He moved with his parents to a farm near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the classical academy of James Ross in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, in 1807 and to the Bedford County, Pennsylvania, bar in 1808 and commenced practice in Bedford. He was the first burgess of Bedford Borough in the years 1818 and 1819 and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1837.
Russell was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Henry Black. His opponent, according to the Daily Atlas, was "Mr. Philson of Somerset". He was not a candidate for renomination in 1842. He resumed the practice of law, and served as trustee of the Bedford Academy and secretary of the Chambersburg & Bedford Turnpike Company. He died in Bedford in 1870. Interment in Bedford Cemetery.
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- Born
- Nov 10, 1786
United States of America - Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- York
- Died
- Nov 14, 1870
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on July 23, 2013
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