Russell Morris Carneal (May 9, 1918 – July 27, 1998) was an American legislator and judge who served in the

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from 1954 to 1973. After his retirement from the lower house of the state legislature, Carneal assumed the district court judgeship of York County. In 1977, he was appointed to the Ninth Circuit of the

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and retired in 1989. Carneal attended the

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and served in the

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during

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. He died in 1998.

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