Barrow-Walton-Clarke County GaArchives News.....Judge Russell November 7, 1898
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Savannah Morning  News / Walton News November 7, 1898
                       JUDGE COL.R.B. RUSSELL 
                          7 NOVEMBER 1898

     Col. R. B. Russell, of Winder, who becomes judge on January 1, 1899, is
comparatively a young man, being not more than forty years of age. A key to his
success is given in anecdote which we have heard of him. Once he was asked how
he managed to secure the election when he was running for office. His reply was:
"I learned long ago that the vote of the man who needed his breeches patched was
worth as much as the vote of your broadcloth citizen." Col. Russell graduated
from the University of Georgia in the class of 1879 =. In the following year he
was elected to represent Clark county in the legislature, and for six years he
was the representative of that good county. in 1888 he made the race for
solicitor general of the Western Circuit against Col. Ed. Brown, the incumbent
at that time, and was elected. For eight years he was solicitor general, making
a record to be proud of. In 1896,he was beaten in the race for the solicitor
general by Col. C. H. Brand. Now in 1898 Col. R. B. Russell is judge of the
Superior Court in the Western Circuit. 

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