. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . inning the respectand admiration ofthe people of theState, irrespective ofparty. No more em-phatic example of hisgreat popularity withthe people could begiven than that shownby the result of thelast election, when hewas returned for thethird time to the gu-bernatorial oiifice overhis Republican oppo-nent in a presidentialyear, and when theState decided in fa-vor of the Republi-can electors by a vastmajority. GovernorRussell was born inCambridge, Mass.,Jan.
. Massachusetts of today : a memorial of the state, historical and biographical, issued for the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago. . inning the respectand admiration ofthe people of theState, irrespective ofparty. No more em-phatic example of hisgreat popularity withthe people could begiven than that shownby the result of thelast election, when hewas returned for thethird time to the gu-bernatorial oiifice overhis Republican oppo-nent in a presidentialyear, and when theState decided in fa-vor of the Republi-can electors by a vastmajority. GovernorRussell was born inCambridge, Mass.,Jan. 6, 1857 ; laidthe foundation of hiseducation in the pub-lic schools of that city, and from them entering HarvardCollege, graduating therefrom in 1877. He studiedlaw in the law school of Boston University, receivedthe first degree of Bachelor of Laws, suiiima cum laiidc,from that university in 1879, entered the law office ofhis father, and was admitted to the Suffolk bar in but twenty-four years of age he was elected tothe Common Council of his native city; was elected tothe Board of Aldermen the following year, and in 1883. WILLIAM EUSTIS RUSSELL. was returned to the Aldermanic Board for a second was elected mayor of Cambridge in 1884, and wasre-elected the three succeeding years, twice withoutopposition. The fame of his distinguished services, asthe executive head of his native city, was not confinedwithin local bounds, and marked him out for still higherhonor. In 1888 he was nominated as his partys candi-date for governor, and made an excellent personal can-vass of the State. Although failing of election, he led the ticket. In 1889he again led a bril- liant but unsuccessful campaign for the gov-ernorship, and so in-creased his vote ofthe preceding year asto promise successwhen next he shouldclaim the suffrages ofthe people. Thatpromise was re-deemed in 1890,when he was trium-phantly elected gov-ernor of Massachu-setts. In the fall of1891 he was electedfor a
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