Charles H. Russell

Russell was born on December 27, 1903, in Lovelock, Nevada. He graduated from the University of Nevada in 1926. 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.^[1]

Russell was a member of the Nevada state Senate from 1941 to 1946. After that, he was elected as a Republican to the Eightieth Congress, succeeding Democrat Berkeley L. Bunker, who ran unsuccessfully for the U. S. Senate. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1948 to the Eighty-first Congress, narrowly losing to Reno City Councilman Walter S. Baring. He was elected Nevada Governor in 1951 and signed into law SB79, which made Nevada into a right-to-work state.^[2] He left office in 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.^[3]

• Charles H. Russell Papers. Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno

• United States Congress. "Charles H. Russell (id: R000522)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Charles H. RussellatFind a Grave