''For the American entertainment lawyer, see Irwin Russell.'' Irwin Russell (June 3, 1853 - December 23, 1879) was an American poet. His poems were published in ''

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'' and '' The Times-Democrat''. His bust was installed in the

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in 1907. He wrote "humorous, sympathetic pictures of the quaintly sage and irresponsibly happy old-time plantation negro."

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1853 births 1879 deaths People from Port Gibson, Mississippi Poets from Mississippi {{US-poet-1850s-stub