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Russell, Benjamin Edward

soldier, journalist, state legislator, congressman, was born Oct. 5, 1845, in Monticello, Fla. He entered the confederate army as a drummer boy in the first Georgia regiment, and upon the disbanding of this regiment he immediately enlisted in the eighth Florida regiment, continuing with it the last three years of the war with the rank of first lieutenant. He entered the printing business, and has been twenty-one years editor of the Bainbridge Democrat. In 1877 he was a delegate to the state constitutional convention; delegate to the national democratic convention in 1880, and mayor of Bainbridge in 1881-82. He was a representative in the legislature 1882-83, and postmaster at Bainbridge from 1885 to 1890. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat.