Donald Stuart Russell (February 22, 1906 – February 22, 1998) was an American politician, attorney, judge, and academic administrator from South Carolina. A Democrat, Russell served as the 107th governor of South Carolina served from 1963 to 1965, which was followed by a stint as U.S. Senator from South Carolina from 1965 to 1966.
Donald Stuart Russell
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals
Born 1906 in Lafayette Springs, MS
Died 1998 in Spartanburg, SC
FJC ID: 2074
Career output and lasting influence
Opinions attributed per year · peak 9/year
Later decisions citing those opinions, per year · peak 297/year
South Carolina District Court · 1966–1971Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals · 1971–1998
Both charts share the same year axis. Opinion counts include only opinions in our corpus attributed to this judge so far — a year at zero can mean an attribution gap, not judicial silence. Influence typically outlasts the career: citations keep climbing after the last opinion.
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- U.S. senator from South Carolina1965–1966
- South CarolinaGovernor · 1963–1965
- Private practice, Spartanburg, South Carolina1930–1942, 1947–1951, 1957–1963
President · 1951–1957- Assistant secretary of state1945–1947
- Office of War Mobilization and ReconversionDeputy director · 1945
U.S. Army major1944- U.S. Department of WarPrice Adjustment Board · 1942–1943
- ↳assistant director of economic stabilization · 1942
- ↳assistant to director of war mobilization · 1943
- Private practice, Union, South Carolina1929–1930
Appointments
1971–1998 · Appointed by Richard M. Nixon (Republican)Term ended: Death
1966–1971 · Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson (Democratic)Term ended: Appointment to Another Judicial Position
Education
- LL.B. · 1928
- University of South CarolinaA.B. · 1925