Charles Wells Russell Jr. (1856 – 1927) was an American diplomat.

Biography

Russell was born in 1856 to prominent politician and lawyer Charles Wells Russell Sr.[1]

Originally, Russell worked as an attorney for the Department of Justice (DOJ).[1] He would also marry both of the sisters of former Confederate Colonel, John S. Mosby and by the late 1800s have children from them both.[2] Russell would use his position in the DOJ to hire his brother-in-law as a subordinate in the Bureau of Insular and Territorial affairs.[3]

Russell served as the United States' Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Iran from 1909 to 1914.[4]

In 1917 Russell would be listed as the editor on his brother-in-law's memoirs.[2][5]

Russell died in 1927.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 "Ohio County, West Virginia Biographies". genealogytrails.com. Retrieved May 14, 2021.
  2. 1 2 Russell, Charles Wells (September 22, 1917). Publishers Weekly. Little, Brown and Company.
  3. ↑ Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military history. David Stephen Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler, David J. Coles. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 2000. ISBN 0-393-04758-X. OCLC 49681605.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  4. 1 2 "Charles Wells Russell - People - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
  5. ↑ Eicher, David J. (2002). Robert E. Lee: A Life Portrait. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-87833-147-5.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wells_Russell_Jr.