Researching Francis Russell
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Records of Francis Russell on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Francis Russell and the Russell Family History
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Some Famous People called Francis Russell
Francis Russell (author)
Francis Russell (January 12, 1910 in Boston, Massachusetts – March 20, 1989 in Falmouth, Massachusetts) was an American author specializing in American history and historical figures. Russell is best known for his book on Warren G. Harding, The Shadow of Blooming Grove. He graduated from Bowdoin College, and from Harvard University, with a master's degree in 1937.He served in the Canadian Army from 1941 to 1946.
He married Rosalind Lawson. He had a daughter from a previous marriage.
His papers are kept at Bowdoin College.
Russell became embroiled in a lawsuit with some of the heirs of Warren Harding around the publication of his 1968 biography of the former president. Alleging that they had been embarrassed by the previous publication of some of the love letters of Harding, the heirs sued and won a judgement preventing the publication of the letters by Russell.
His work on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the award-winning Tragedy In Dedham: The Story of the Sacco-Vanzetti Case (1962), continued with the 1986 publication of Sacco & Vanzetti: The Case Resolved. In it, he claimed to solve the case, proposing that only Nicola Sacco was guilty and Bartholomew Vanzetti was innocent.
Source: Francis Russell (author), Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaFrancis William Russell
Francis William Russell (3 June 1800 – 30 August 1871) was the Liberal MP for Limerick City from 1852 until his death.
He was the son of John Norris Russell a Limerick merchant and miller, and brother of Richard Russell, who died one day before him in Limerick. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and entered the Irish Bar in 1824.
In 1834 he married Frances Clarke from Melton Mowbray; his son, John Thomas Norreys Russell, was a barrister on the South Eastern Circuit and later a JP for Leicestershire; and his grandson, Francis Deane Russell, had a distinguished career in the Indian Army.
Following the death of Francis in 1871, his position in the parliament was filled by Issac Butt.
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