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The Russell House was built in 1912 by Richard Brevard Russell, Sr., who was born in 1861 and died in 1938, and his wife, Ina Dillard, who was born in 1868 and died in 1953; they were married on June 24, 1891, and had fifteen children. Judge Russell was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Georgia in 1922 and served in that capacity until his death. Mrs. Russell was Georgia’s Mother of the Year in 1950. In 1954, the late Senator Richard B. Russell, Jr., the oldest son, became owner of the house and made it his home until his death in 1971. Russell Memorial Park and Cemetery is located south of the house.
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