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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Abraham Edwards, Alfred Vellucci, Alice Wolf, Alpheus B. Alger, Alvin F. Sortwell, Anthony D. Galluccio, Augustine J. Daly, Charles H. Saunders, Charles Theodore Russell, David T. Dickinson, E. Denise Simmons, Edgar R. Champlin, Edward J. Sullivan, Edward W. Quinn, Ezra Parmenter, Francis Duehay, Frank Augustus Allen, George C. Richardson, George Stevens (1803-1894), Hamlin R. Harding, Henry Gilmore, Henry Oscar Houghton, Isaac Bradford, J. Edward Barry, J. Warren Merrill, James Augustus Fox, James D. Green, James Morris Whiton Hall, John H. Corcoran, John Sargent (1799-1880), John W. Lyons, Joseph DeGuglielmo, Kenneth Reeves, Leonard J. Russell, List of mayors and city managers of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Michael A. Sullivan, Richard M. Russell, Samuel L. Montague, Sidney Willard, Timothy W. Good, Walter C. Wardwell, Wendell D. Rockwood, William Bancroft, William Russell (governor), Zebina L. Raymond. Excerpt: William Eustis Russell (January 6, 1857 - July 16, 1896) was a U.S. political figure. He served as the 37th Governor of Massachusetts between 1891 and 1894, becoming the state's youngest ever elected Governor at age 34. Russell was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Charles Theodore Russell and Sarah Elizabeth (Ballister) Russell. On his father's side, he was descended from Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. Russell is the great grandfather of writer Thomas E. Ricks and Libertarian Carla Howell. Russell graduated from Harvard College, the Russell family Alma Mater, in 1877. In 1879, he received his law degree from the Boston University School of Law, where he won the Lawrence prize for the best legal essay. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1880 and began the practice of law with his father's Boston firm, Russell & Russell, of which two of his brothers were also members. He also became an active member of the Democratic Party. He was elected to the common council of Cambridge in 1881, and to the board of aldermen in 1883 and 1884. Russell served as Mayor of Cambridge for four 1-year terms from 1885-1888, being reelected with no opposition at least twice. While in office, he solicited a sizable donation from philanthropist Frederick Hastings Rindge for Cambridge City Hall, a Manual Training School (now Cambridge Rindge and Latin School), and Cambridge's library. Russell's son, Richard Manning Russell, was later also Mayor of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Russell's efficient administration as mayor, particularly in the enforcement of the local-option law, and his effective campaign speeches during the Presidential campaign of 1884 made him a prominent figure in state politics. He twice ran unsuccessfully for Governor of Massachusetts in 1888 and 1889, defeated by Oliver Ames and John Quincy Adams Brackett. William E. Russell Russell ran and won as a Democrat for Governor in 1890. He was twice
