[rightwingintelligentsia]

* He was born in Winder, Georgia, in 1897, the first son and fourth of 15 children of Ina and Richard Russell.
* He practiced law with his father after graduating from the University of Georgia School of Law and serving for a brief time in World War !.
* Russell’s father was later chief justice of the Georgia Supreme Court.
* From 1921 to 1931, he served in the Georgia House of Representatives. He was elected governor of Georgia in 1930, taking office in 1931. He won a special election in 1932 to succeed Sen. William J. Harris, who died of a heart attack in April of that year. Russell called for the special election in September 1932, became a candidate and won the seat. He joined the Senate in 1933 and was re-elected six times.
* Russell was known as a skilled legislator for his mastery of the rules of the Senate.
* During his career, he served as president pro tempore of the Senate, chairman of the Committee on Immigration, chairman of the Committee on Manufactures, chairman of the Committee on Armed Services, and chairman on the Committee on Appropriations.
* He was the chief sponsor of the 1946 National School Lunch Act. The legislation offered discounted or free lunches to low-income school children.
* Russell chaired the Senate investigation into the firing by President Harry Truman of General Douglas MacArthur.
* He ran for president in 1952.
* Russell was a segregationist, opposing civil rights legislation. In 1956, he helped to write the “Southern Manifesto” which laid out the Southern states’ opposition to racial desegregation.
* He was a leader in the opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

[1Old Pro]

Please, can we pass a law that we will NOT name publicly financed anything after elected officials!

[KSCITYBOY]

btt

[ArtDodger]

2 birds with one stone. Erase a segregationist from the dem rolls and poke Trump in the eye. All the while showing RINOs how they too can be rewarded with immortality if they tow the socialist line.

[dowcaet]

Weren’t the Democrats accusing McVain of being a racist during the 2008 campaign? This is one of those shameless political moves from Schmucky that will predictably win praise from the MSM and the Deep State Congress for “reaching across the political aisle”!

[Paine in the Neck]

We need to stop naming public buildings and facilities after anyone. The one thing the Soviets got right - number them instead.

[skr]

Old Senate Office Building works for me. No controversy and tells us exactly what it is.

[Georgia Girl 2]

That's OK. Russell still has a building in downtown Atlanta. ☺

[katana]

If Senate Republicans had any b***s they'd counter propose changing the name of the building to McKinley Dirksen and rename the office building that currently bears his name to the Mansfield Building (to honor Mike Mansfield, a friend and colleague, of his, WWII USMC vteran, and honorable Senate Democrat Majority Leader of the same generation). Not only did Dirksen (whose deep voice is unforgettable to anyone who followed politics in the sixties) help write the 1964 Civil Rights Act and bust the four and a half day Democrat filibuster against it led by Russell, but as far as I know he never crashed any Navy property, while in uniform commit any acts of collaboration with a declared enemy of the United States, or be a proven co-conspirator in any major financial fraud scandals.

I know, key word is "if".

[V_TWIN]

Wow, I always suspected JM was in tight with the lib dems but this is very telling......to me at least.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

One can almost forget that there are government buildings that are not named after Robert Byrd.

[Fiji Hill]

If they get away with renaming the Russell building, two of the House buildings are certain to be renamed if the Democrats ever regain the House. Expect the Cannon Building, named for House Speaker Joe Cannon (R-Ill.) and the Longworth Building, named after House Speaker Nicholas Longworth (R-Ohio), both solidly conservative Republicans, to be renamed for Tip O’Neill, Jim Wright, Tom Foley or Nancy Pelosi. But because they are named for Democrats, the Rayburn House Office Building and the Hart Senate Office Building will not be renamed.

[McGavin999]

Should be stressed that he was a democrat. Thanks Senator Schumer for bringing this to everyone’s attention

[vette6387]

I just wish that Schumer would die so we could name the digester out at the NYC Sewage Treatment Plant after him. It would be apropos because both of them are full of $hit!

[bigbob]

If they want people to remember McCain when they see it, then blow it up and leave a smouldering pile of rubble.

[Hatteras]

"* Russell was a segregationist, opposing civil rights legislation. In 1956, he helped to write the “Southern Manifesto” which laid out the Southern states’ opposition to racial desegregation.
* He was a leader in the opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. "

Oh, so what your saying is he was a Democrat.

[Albion Wilde]

[Captain Peter Blood]

Frankly I would like the building to be renamed the Strom Thurmond Senate Building.

[binreadin]

Interesting that Richard Russell is also the name of the Horizon employee who flew the stolen Q400 out of the Seattle airport, over the area of the final resting place of the submarine named Richard Russell.

Interesting coincidences.

[Berosus]

Who’d have thought Chuck the Schmuck would want to take a building named after a Democrat and rename it after a Republican?

[Impy]

Russell wasn’t the worst democrat in Washington but didn’t he support LBJ’s entire agenda aside from Civil Rights?