Person
ISNI: 
0000 0000 8093 0566
https://isni.org/isni/0000000080930566
Name: 
Alger, R. A.
Alger, Russell A.
Alger, Russell Alexander
Russell A. Alger (Amerikaans politicus (1836-1907))
Russell A. Alger (amerikai szenátor)
Russell A. Alger (Union Army general)
Russell Alexander Alger (20º Governador e Senador do estado do Michigan e também Secretário da Guerra dos Estados Unidos)
Russell Alexander Alger (politicien américain)
Russell Alexander Alger (politico statunitense)
Russell Alexander Alger (US-amerikanischer Politiker)
Элджер, Расселл Александер
راسل ای. آلگر (افسر و سیاست‌مدار آمریکایی)
ラッセル・アレクサンダー・アルジャー
Dates: 
1836-1907
Creation class: 
Language material
Creation role: 
author
Related names: 
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) (isAffiliatedWith)
United States. Congress. Senate (isAffiliatedWith)
United States. War Department (isAffiliatedWith)
Titles: 
Spanish-American war, The
Notes: 
(Russell Alexander)
Associated Group: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) naf
Associated Group: United States. Congress. Senate naf
Associated Group: United States. War Department naf
Associated Language:
Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed May 24, 2018 (Alger, Russell Alexander, a Senator from Michigan; born in Lafayette Township, Medina County, Ohio, February 27, 1836; worked on a farm; attended Richfield Academy, Summit County, Ohio; taught country school; studied law in Akron, Ohio; admitted to the bar in March 1859; moved to Grand Rapids, Mich., and engaged in the lumber business; moved to Detroit; served in the Union Army during the Civil War 1861-1865; brevetted as a major general, United States Volunteers; resumed the lumber business; elected Governor of Michigan in 1884; declined renomination in 1886; presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1888; was appointed Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President William McKinley on March 5, 1897, and resigned August 1, 1899; appointed and subsequently elected as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James McMillan, and served from September 27, 1902, until his death in Washington, D.C., January 24, 1907; chairman, Committee on the Pacific Railroads (Fifty-ninth Congress); interment in Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Mich.)
Fuller form of personal name: Russell Alexander
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