Word: brevard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia Chamber of Commerce banquet in Washington, Georgia's Democratic Senator Richard Brevard Russell tried on a Confederate Army forage hat for size* but refrained, as any dark horse presidential candidate would, from tossing it into the ring...
Steeped & Basted. Richard Brevard Russell stands bald head and broad shoulders above the course he represents, although he was steeped in Southern traditions and basted on both sides. His great-great-grandfather, John Russell, was a South Carolina plantation owner who held 100 slaves. General Sherman, on his way through Georgia, burned the cotton mills and freed the slaves of Grandfather William John Russell. Richard Brevard Russell Sr., Dick's father, was a Georgia lawyer and judge who served as the state's chief justice for 15 years before he died...
...birthday, he was elected to the Georgia general assembly. He has been in public office ever since, has never lost an election. For ten years Russell served in the assembly, became its parliamentary expert and its presiding officer. Then he decided to move up. In 1931, Chief Justice Richard Brevard Russell Sr. swore in Richard Brevard Russell Jr. as governor of Georgia. He was 33, the youngest governor in the state's history...
...quiet press conference on Capitol Hill, Georgia's Senator Richard Brevard Russell announced that he is a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination. Said he: "I am a Jeffersonian Democrat who believes in the greatest practicable degree of local self-government." Would he support Harry Truman if the President is nominated? "I shall not answer that until he is and I see the platform," said straightforward Dick Russell. "... I have never been one of those men who say vote the Democratic ticket even if it destroys my country...
...Transylvania Music Camp, Brevard, N.C.: instrumental and ensemble instruction; Eileen Farrell, Eugene List, soloists...