David Abel Russell (1780 – November 24, 1861) was a

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from

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. Russell was born in

Petersburg, New York Petersburgh is a town located in the northeast section of Rensselaer County, New York, United States. The population was 1,372 at the 2020 census.U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 census results, Petersburgh, New York. https://www.census.gov/search-result ...

and trained as a lawyer and practiced in

Salem, New York Salem is a town in eastern Washington County, New York, United States. It is part of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town population was 2,612 at the 2020 census. The town of Salem contains a hamlet also named Salem, former ...

. He married on February 14, 1805, in

Lansingburgh, New York Lansingburgh is a village in the north end of Troy, New York, United States. It was first laid out in lots and incorporated in 1771 by Abraham Jacob Lansing, who had purchased the land in 1763. In 1900, Lansingburgh became part of the City of Tr ...

to Alida Lansing, daughter of Capt. Cornelius Lansing and granddaughter of the founder of Lansingburgh, Abraham Jacob Lansing. Russell was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1807. He was District Attorney of the Fourth District from 1813 to 1815, during the

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. He was a member of the

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1816 This year was known as the ''Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in some locati ...

, then over a decade later as an

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in the

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and

1833 Events January–March * January 3 – The United Kingdom reasserts British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. * February 6 (January 25 on the Greek calendar) – Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria arr ...

sessions. He was elected to

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as an

and later became a Whig. He was elected to three consecutive terms (the 24th, 25th and

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) in Congress, from March 4, 1835, to March 3, 1841. He died in Salem and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery.

Personal life

David Abel Russell married Alida Lansing on

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, 1805. She was the fifth of eight children of Capt. Cornelius Lansing and Hester van Der Heyden, who married on March 13, 1773.The Lansing family
A genealogy of the descendants of Gerritt Frederickse Lansing who came to America from Hasselt, province of Overijssell, Holland, 1640. Eight generations by Munsell, Claude Garfield, 1881-. Accessed 23 July 2023. Their sons were David Allen Russell, a Union general killed in action, and William A. Russell.

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