Samuel Lyon Russell

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Samuel Lyon Russell (July 30, 1816 - September 27, 1891) was a Whig member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Samuel L. Russell (son of James McPherson Russell) was born in Bedford, Pennsylvania, in 1816. He attended the common schools and Bedford Academy. He graduated from Washington College in Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1834. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1837 and commenced practice in Bedford. He served as prosecuting attorney of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, during the 1840s.

Russell was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress. He was not a candidate for renomination and resumed the practice of law in Bedford. He became a Republican upon the organization of that party in 1856. He was a member of the State constitutional convention in 1873 and a member of the town council and the school board. He died in Bedford in 1891. Interment in Bedford Cemetery.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• The Political Graveyard

Preceded by Andrew Parker

Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district 1853 - 1855

Succeeded by David F. Robison