- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Photograph of Benjamin Edward Russell, Bainbridge, Decatur County, Georgia, ca. 1900-1902]
- Date of Original:
- 1900/1902
- Subject:
- Soldiers--Confederate States of America
Armed Forces--Georgia--Bainbridge
Georgia--Politics and government
Portraits--Georgia--Bainbridge
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans--Georgia--Bainbridge - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Decatur County, Bainbridge, 30.9038, -84.57547
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Bainbridge, ca. 1900-1902. Benjamin Edward Russell was born in Monticello, Jefferson County, Fla. on October 5, 1845. He moved with his parents to Decatur County, Georgia, in 1854. He was a member of the Confederate Army in the Civil War; editor of the Bainbridge Democrat; delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in 1877; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880; mayor of Bainbridge 1881 and 1882; member of the Georgia House of Representatives 1882 and 1883; postmaster of Bainbridge 1885-1890; elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1893 - March 3, 1897); resumed the publication of the Bainbridge Democrat; and died in Bainbridge on December 4, 1909.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_dec162
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:dec162
- Additional Rights Information:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
Contact repository re: reproduction and usage. - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
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