
Charles Hinton Russell (27 December 1903-13 September 1989) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-NV AL) from 3 January 1947 to 3 January 1949 (succeeding Berkeley L. Bunker and preceding Walter S. Baring Jr.) and Governor of Nevada from 1 January 1951 to 5 January 1959 (succeeding Vail Pittman and preceding Grant Sawyer).
Biography[]
Charles Hinton Russell was born in Lovelock, Nevada in 1903, and he worked for a copper company in Ruth before editing the Ely Record from 1929 to 1946 and serving in the State Senate from 1941 to 1946, in the US House of Representatives from 1947 to 1949, and serving as Governor from 1951 to 1959. He signed a right-to-work law into effect, and he left office in 1959 and died in Carson City in 1989.