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RUSSELL, Daniel Lindsay, a Representative from North Carolina;
born on Winnabow plantation, Brunswick County, near Wilmington, N.C., on August 7, 1845;
received his early education from private teachers and attended the Bingham School in Orange County, N.C.;
entered the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, but left upon the outbreak of the Civil War;
served as a captain in the Confederate Army;
member of the State house of commons 1864-1866;
studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Wilmington, N.C.;
judge of the superior courts for the fourth judicial circuit 1868-1874;
elected as a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1871;
member of the State house of representatives in 1876;
delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876;
elected as a Greenbacker to the Forty-sixth Congress (March 4, 1879-March 3, 1881);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1880;
Governor of North Carolina 1896-1900;
resumed the practice of law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits;
died on Belville plantation, near Wilmington, N.C., May 14, 1908;
interment in the family burying ground, Hickory Hill, Onslow County, N.C.
Bibliography
Crow, Jeffrey J., and Robert F. Durden. Maverick Republican in the Old North State: A Political Biography of Daniel L. Russell. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1977.
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