Russell, Alfred
jurist, scholar, orator, was born March 18, 1830, in Plymouth, N. H. In 1850 he graduated from Dartmouth college, and in 1852 from the Harvard college law school.
The same year he was admitted to the bar of New Hampshire; the following year to the bar of Michigan; to the bar of the United States circuit court on June 25, 1853, and to the bar of the supreme court of the United States at Washington in 1858. He took part in the formation of the republican party. In 1864 he was sent to Montreal and Toronto by Secretary Seward to procure extradition of the St. Albans and Lake Erie raiders. He was appointed United States district attorney by President Lincoln; and has been professor of federal jurisprudence in the Detroit College of Law. He is the author of many patriotic and college addresses, and has achieved a national reputation among the lawyers and scholars of America.