Richard Manning Russell (March 3, 1891 – February 27, 1977) was a United States Representative

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 from Massachusetts

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. He was born in Cambridge

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 on March 3, 1891. He attended the Middlesex School

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 in Concord

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. He graduated from Harvard University

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 in 1914 and from Harvard Law School

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 in 1917.

During the World War I

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, he served 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. He was admitted to the bar and commenced practice

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 in Boston. He was a member of the Cambridge City Council and served as Mayor

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 of Cambridge.

He was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Seventy-fourth Congress

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 (January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1937). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1936 to the Seventy-fifth Congress

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, for election in 1950 to fill a vacancy in the Eighty-first Congress

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, and for election in 1950 to the Eighty-second Congress

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. He resumed the practice of law in Boston and resided in Essex

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, where he died February 27, 1977. His interment was in Pine Hill Cemetery in Tewksbury

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