Daniel Lindsay Russell [SEP] position held
Daniel Lindsay Russell
Daniel Lindsay Russell Jr. (August 7, 1845May 14, 1908) was the 49th Governor of North Carolina, serving from 1897 to 1901. An attorney, judge, and politician, he had also been elected as state representative and to the United States Congress, serving 1879-1881. Although he fought with the Confederacy during the Civil War, Russell and his father were both Unionists. After the war, Russell joined the Republican Party in North Carolina, which was an unusual affiliation for one of the
in efforts to organize black Republican support for those who remained. In general, Scruggs was politically conservative and sought stability and interracial harmony, a position which occasionally put him at odds with state Republican leader, Daniel Lindsay Russell.
Scruggs was an advocate for African-American Women. In 1893, two separate volumes about African American women, by Monroe Alpheus Majors and Women of Distinction by Scruggs, were published in 1893 and represented entries into the genre which did focus on women. Scruggs felt that African-American women were