Author: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 96

View

Book Description

Author: Gilbert C. Fite
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 9780807854655
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 590

View

Book Description
Richard B. Russell, Jr., Senator From Georgia

Author: David Daniel Potenziani
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

View

Book Description

Author: Sally Russell
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 0881462594
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 339

View

Book Description
In 1897, the year Richard Brevard Russell, Jr., was born, the world was poised for a dramatic swing into a century that would see more changes in religion, politics, society, science, technology, and war than almost all other centuries of human history combined. It was a wild ride for a boy born to fulfill great expectations in the mercurial modern political arena yet reared to venerate the worn and vanishing splendor of the American South. He would become one of the half dozen most powerful men in Washington for a period of almost twenty years, and it would be frequently admitted, most notably by President Harry Truman, that if Russell had not been from Georgia, if he had been from a state such as Indiana, Illinois or Missouri, the Presidency could not have been denied him. His love of the South and his native state was such that when Truman¿s remark was quoted to him, Russell replied: ¿I¿d rather be from Georgia than be President.¿ This book acquaints the reader with a fascinating and complex man of contrasts. An ardent segregationist who fought civil rights legislation, Richard B. Russell was also the devoted father of the School Lunch Program. A Georgia farm boy, Russell almost idolized the agricultural society from which America sprang but embraced the nuclear age and space technology. An intense family man, he appreciated women, fell in love easily, and conducted numerous affairs. Yet Russell never married. Deeply private, he lived his entire adult life in the public eye. Richard Russell was good company. His personal story makes good reading.

Author: Richard Brevard Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 398

View

Book Description
A collection of 37 speeches by a former senator from Georgia, grouped in sections on constitutional principles, agriculture and industry, military preparedness, and civil rights. Speeches span the time from the 1930s to the 1960s, and touch on issues facing the state, the nation, and the world. Includes an introduction reviewing Russell's career and bandw photos. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Georgia. Governor (1931-1933 : Russell)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 16

View

Book Description

Author: Mark Lane
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

View

Book Description

Author: John Harvey Willey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Georgia
Languages : en
Pages : 117

View

Book Description

Author: Sally Russell
Publisher: Mercer University Press
ISBN: 9780865549579
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 380

View

Book Description
Born in 1861, eldest in a while, middle-class Southern family that lost everything material in the American civil war, Richard Russell grew up consumed with ambition to make a name for himself. His dream was to found an outstanding family and to hold the three highest offices in Georgia: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Governor, and United States senator. In striving for these ambitions, he married twice and ran for public office seventeen times. Although elected to lesser offices, he lost races for chief justice, governor, Congress, and the U.S. Senate. He was elected to the first Georgia Court of Appeals in 1906 and to the Supreme Court as chief justice in 1922. His first wife, Minnie Tyler, died in childbirth in 1886, leaving him bereft, but five years later he married again. With Ina Dillard he formed an exemplary marriage relationship that produced fifteen children, thirteen of whom survived to become responsible adults, credits to effective parenting. The eldest son, Richard Brevard Russell Jr., fulfilled the gubernatorial and senatorial dreams of his father, becoming governor of Georgia in 1931 and U.S. senator from Georgia in 1933, when he was thirty-five years old. He served thirty-seven years in the United States Senate and became Georgia's premier statesman of the twentieth century. Thanks to their father's emphasis on education and his willingness to pay for it, the Russell children studied law, medicine, the ministry and teaching and became respected professionals in their careers. The glory and difficulty of patriarchy come clear in this story of social and familial structures that both restricted and strengthened conscientious middle and upper-class white men of thepost-Civil War South.

Author: Richard Brevard Russell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : World War, 1939-1945
Languages : en
Pages : 16

View

Book Description