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Charles Hinton Russell (December 27, 1903 – September 13, 1989) was an American
politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking, a ...
who served as the 20th Governor of Nevada. He was a member of the Republican Party.


Biography

Russell was born on December 27, 1903, in
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. He graduated from the
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in 1926. He taught school in Ruby Valley for one term and then went to
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to work for the copper company. He was the editor of the ''Ely Record'' for seventeen years, beginning in 1929.


Political career

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
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City Councilman
Walter S. Baring Walter Stephan Baring Jr. (September 9, 1911 – July 13, 1975) was a United States representative from Nevada. Biography Baring was born in Goldfield, Nevada, to Emily L. and Walter Stephan Baring, his paternal grandparents were born in Germany ...
. He was elected Nevada Governor in 1951 and signed into law SB79, which made Nevada into a right-to-work state. He left office in 1959.


Death

Russell died on September 13, 1989, in
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, at the age of 85. He is interred at the Dayton Cemetery in
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.


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Charles H. Russell Papers
Special Collections, University Libraries, University of Nevada, Reno * , - 1903 births 1989 deaths 20th-century American newspaper editors 20th-century American politicians Editors of Nevada newspapers Republican Party Nevada state senators Republican Party governors of Nevada People from Lovelock, Nevada Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Nevada University of Nevada alumni 20th-century American Episcopalians {{Nevada-politician-stub