Russell, Sam Morris

Name: Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 - Russell, Sam Morris
Author: U.S. Congress

Russell, Sam Morris, a Representative from Texas; born on a farm near Stephenville, Erath County, Tex., August 9, 1889; attended the rural schools and the John Tarleton College, Stephenville, Tex.; taught school in Erath County, Tex., 1913-1918; also engaged in agricultural pursuits; during the First World War served as a private in the Forty-sixth Machine Gun Company, United States Army, in 1918 and 1919; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1919 and commenced practice in Stephenville, Tex.; served as county attorney of Erath County, Tex., 1919-1924; district attorney of the twenty-ninth judicial district 1924-1928; served as judge of the twenty-ninth judicial district 1928-1940; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-seventh, Seventy-eighth, and Seventy-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1941-January 3, 1947); was not a candidate for renomination in 1946; resumed the practice of law, and is a resident of Stephenville, Tex.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Russell, Sam Morris," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1768 Original Sources, accessed March 26, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5DLIWJPY16QZ598.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Russell, Sam Morris." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1768, Original Sources. 26 Mar. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5DLIWJPY16QZ598.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Russell, Sam Morris' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.1768. Original Sources, retrieved 26 March 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=5DLIWJPY16QZ598.