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Compiled Historical Information
Date of Death: 8/16/1883
Birth Place: Sussex County, Delaware
Party Affiliation: Whig
Assemblies Served:
House: 4 (1852)
Home County: Van Buren
Robert Russell
Van Buren County
Born Oct. 27, 1809, in Delaware. He married Elizabeth Craige in 1829 in Sussex County, Delaware. The family located to Van Buren county, Iowa, from Sussex county, Del., in 1846. He was a postmaster for Milton, Iowa, in 1851. Mr. Russell represented Van Buren County in the Fourth Iowa General Assembly, 1852. He was a Whig in politics. He died on Aug. 16, 1883.
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House District 3
Committees
4th GA (1852)
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4th GA (1852)