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James McPherson Russell (November 10, 1786 – November 14, 1870) was aWhig member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromPennsylvania.
James M. Russell (father ofSamuel Lyon Russell) was born inYork, Pennsylvania. He moved with his parents to a farm nearGettysburg, Pennsylvania. He attended the classical academy of James Ross inChambersburg, Pennsylvania. He studied law, was admitted to the bar ofFranklin County, Pennsylvania, in 1807 and to theBedford County, Pennsylvania, bar in 1808 and commenced practice in Bedford.
He was the first burgess of Bedford Borough in the years 1818 and 1819 and a member of the State constitutional convention in 1837.[citation needed]
Russell was elected as a Whig to theTwenty-seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death ofHenry Black. His opponent, according to theDaily Atlas, was "Mr. Philson of Somerset".[1] He was not a candidate for renomination in1842.
He resumed the practice of law, and served as trustee of the Bedford Academy and secretary of the Chambersburg & Bedford Turnpike Company. He died in Bedford in 1870. Interment in Bedford Cemetery.
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