RUSSELL, Benjamin F., a Sergeant at Arms from Missouri; born in Oxford County, Maine, October 26, 1844; Union Army; teacher; lawyer, private practice; newspaper publisher; member of the Missouri state house of representatives, 1892–1895; speaker of the Missouri state house of representatives, 1895; elected Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives for the Fifty-fourth Congress and for the succeeding Congress (December 2, 1895–December 4, 1899); chief clerk of the Missouri state house of representatives, 1905; died on October 25, 1908, in St. Louis, Mo.
[ Top ]History, Art & Archives, U.S. House of Representatives, “RUSSELL, Benjamin F.,” https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/R/RUSSELL,-Benjamin-F-/ (September 20, 2022)
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