William A. Russell (New York)

For other people named William Russell, see William Russell (disambiguation).

William A. Russell was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Congressman David Abel Russell and Alida (Lansing) Russell.

He was Sheriff of Washington County from 1850 to 1852.

He was an Inspector of State Prisons from 1856 to 1858, elected on the American ticket in 1855 but defeated for re-election in 1858.

Union General David Allen Russell was his brother.

Sources

DEATH LIST OF A DAY in NYT on May 25, 1897, his son's (also named William A. Russell) obit
Harper's Magazine telling an anecdote of Russell's trip south to take up his duties at the State Prison
The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 46 and 409; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

Inspectors of New York State Prisons

Gedney Comstock Spencer Wells D Clark Angel Storms Kirkpatrick Bowne Russell Bailey Rhodes Everest Forrest Bates Tappen Clarke Barnum Hammond Scheu McNeil Laflin Graves Platt Wagener Crowley B Clark Anderson

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