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Charles Russell CLASON, Congress, MA (1890-1985)

CLASON, Charles Russell, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Gardiner, Kennebec County, Maine, September 3, 1890; attended the public schools; Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, A.B.,…

Schulz, Charles M.

(Encyclopedia) Schulz, Charles M. (Charles Monroe Schulz), 1922–2000, American cartoonist, b. Minneapolis, Minn. Creator of the syndicated comic strip Peanuts (1950–2000), one of the world's most…

Russell, John Russell, 1st Earl

(Encyclopedia) Russell, John Russell, 1st Earl, 1792–1878, British statesman; younger son of the 6th duke of Bedford, known most of his life as Lord John Russell. He became a Whig member of…

Charles M. Schulz

cartoonistBorn: 11/26/1922Birthplace: Minneapolis, Minnesota Cartoonist who created “Peanuts,” the most commercially successful syndicated comic strip of all time. Charlie Brown, piano-playing…

Russell, Morgan

(Encyclopedia) Russell, Morgan, 1886–1953, American painter, b. New York City. Russell, together with Stanton Macdonald-Wright, founded synchromism in Paris in 1913. Structuring his paintings on…

Russell, George William

(Encyclopedia) Russell, George William, pseud. A. E., 1867–1935, Irish author, b. Lurgan, educated in Dublin. An active member of the Irish nationalist movement, he edited the Irish Homestead (1904–…

Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl

(Encyclopedia) Russell, Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3d Earl, 1872–1970, British philosopher, mathematician, and social reformer, b. Trelleck, Wales. As with his philosophical stance, Russell's…

Means, Russell

(Encyclopedia) Means, Russell, 1939–2012, Native American activist, b. Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, S.Dak. An Oglala Sioux, he grew up near San Francisco, and attended four colleges but never…

Lynne Russell

TV news anchor Russell attended the University of Colorado, where she majored in nursing. In 1971 she became program director and host of an interview show at WKAT-TV in Miami. She left in 1978 to…

Kurt Russell

actorBorn: 3/17/1951Birthplace: Springfield, Massachusetts Though Russell started acting as a child and was signed up to a 10-year contract by Walt Disney himself, he planned to make professional…