Office: | Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner |
Term Start: | January 1917 |
Term End: | January 1923 |
Predecessor: | George A. Henshaw |
Successor: | Frank Carter |
State Senate2: | Oklahoma |
District2: | 27th |
Term Start2: | November 16, 1912 |
Term End2: | November 16, 1916 |
Predecessor2: | Sid Garrett |
Successor2: | Eugene Kerr |
Term Start3: | November 16, 1907 |
Term End3: | November 16, 1910 |
Predecessor3: | Position established |
Successor3: | Sid Garrett |
Birth Date: | 1863 |
Death Date: | 1937 |
Party: | Democratic Party |
Campbell Russell was an American politician who served in the Oklahoma Senate and as an Oklahoma Corporation Commissioner.
Campbell Russell was born in 1863. He moved to Indian Territory between 1880 and 1882, settling in the Muscogee Nation (present-day Muskogee County). He later owned 27,000 head of cattle through his Prairie Stock Farm in Warner. He founded and funded the first free school for white children in Indian Territory. He built a four classroom school in 1905 and donated it to the town.[1]
Russell was elected to the Oklahoma Senate as a Democrat in 1907 representing the 27th district and served four consecutive terms.[2] In 1916, he was elected to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. In 1922, he was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar Association. He also worked for Farmer's Union and the Southwest Light and Power Company. He ran for Oklahoma's 9th congressional district in 1930. He died in 1937.