Errett, Russell
journalist, state senator, congressman, was born in 1817 in New York. He adopted the profession of an editor; was comptroller of Pittsburg in 1860; and clerk of the state senate in 1860 and 1861. He served in the union army, as additional paymaster, from 1861 to 1866. He was a state senator in 1867; was assessor of internal revenue from 1869 to 1873; and again clerk of the state senate from 1872 to 1876. He was elected a representative from Pennsylvania to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth and forty-seventh congresses as a republican.