Donald Stuart Russell

Judge Donald Stuart Russell

Personal

Birthday:

2/22/1906

Birthplace:

Lafayette Springs, MS

Date of Death:

2/22/1998

Place of Death:

Spartanburg, SC

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Private practice, Union, South Carolina, 1929-1930
Private practice, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1930-1942, 1947-1951, 1957-1963
Price Adjustment Board, U.S. Department of War, 1942-1943; assistant director of economic stabilization, 1942; assistant to director of war mobilization, 1943
U.S. Army major, 1944
Deputy director, Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion, 1945
Assistant secretary of state, 1945-1947
President, University of South Carolina, 1951-1957
Governor, South Carolina, 1963-1965
U.S. senator from South Carolina, 1965-1966

Education

Name of School:

University of South Carolina

Degree:

A.B.

Degree Year:

1925

Name of School - Second:

University of South Carolina School of Law

Founded in 1867, the mission of the School of Law is to teach law through in-depth study; to contribute through faculty and student research to the common good, to the fund of legal knowledge, and to legal development and reform; and to cooperate with state government, the community, and the organized Bar in developing and implementing appropriate programs in legal research, law reform, criminal justice reform, and continuing legal education.

Degree - Second:

LL.B.

Degree Year - Second:

1928

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court, District of South Carolina

Court Name:

South Carolina District Court

President Nominating:

Lyndon B. Johnson

Party Affiliation of President:

Democratic

Commission Date:

11/3/1966

Termination Date:

5/1/1971

Termination Reason:

Appointment to Another Judicial Position

Court Name - Second:

U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Court Name - Second:

Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals

Commission Date - Second:

4/23/1971

Termination Date - Second:

2/22/1998

Termination Reason - Second:

Death