Charles Wells Russell Jr.

American diplomat

Ambassador Charles Wells Russell Jr.


United States Ambassador to Iran
In office 1909–1914
Preceded by	John B. Jackson
Succeeded by	John L. Caldwell

Personal details
Born	Charles Wells Russell 1856 (1856)
Died	1927 (aged 70–71)
Parent	Charles Wells Russell (father)

Charles Wells Russell Jr. (1856 – 1927) was an American diplomat.

Biography

Russell was born in 1856 to prominent politician and lawyer Charles Wells Russell Sr.^[1]

Originally, Russell worked as an attorney for the Department of Justice (DOJ).^[1] He would also marry both of the sisters of former Confederate Colonel, John S. Mosby and by the late 1800s have children from them both.^[2] Russell would use his position in the DOJ to hire his brother-in-law as a subordinate in the Bureau of Insular and Territorial affairs.^[3]

Russell served as the United States' Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Iran from 1909 to 1914.^[4]

In 1917 Russell would be listed as the editor on his brother-in-law's memoirs.^[2]^[5]

Russell died in 1927.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b "Ohio County, West Virginia Biographies". genealogytrails.com. Retrieved 2021-05-14.
^ ^a ^b Russell, Charles Wells (September 22, 1917). Publishers Weekly. Little, Brown and Company.
^ Encyclopedia of the American Civil War : a political, social, and military history. David Stephen Heidler, Jeanne T. Heidler, David J. Coles. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 2000. ISBN 0-393-04758-X. OCLC 49681605.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^ ^a ^b "Charles Wells Russell - People - Department History - Office of the Historian". history.state.gov. Retrieved 2021-05-10.
^ Eicher, David J. (2002). Robert E. Lee: A Life Portrait. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-0-87833-147-5.