Family
Russell was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to Charles Theodore Russell and Sarah Elizabeth (Ballister) Russell. On his father's side, he was descended from Thomas Hastings who came from the East Anglia region of England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634. Russell is the great grandfather of writer Thomas E. Ricks and Libertarian Carla Howell.
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