2 Quotes & Sayings By Lady R Russell
Lady R. Russell was born in 1923 in Chatham, New York, where she grew up on the family farm. She attended Cornell University, graduating with a degree in economics. Lady Russell met her husband, Richard B
Russell, when he was a Rhodes Scholar and visiting her family farm for an Agricultural Fair. They were married in 1946 and settled in Charlottesville, Virginia. Richard served as Governor of Virginia from 1968-74 and later served as U.S.
Senator from 1969 to 1977 and then as U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1977 to 1981. After Richard’s death in 2001, Lady Russell established the Richard B.
Russell Institute for Economic Studies at the University of Virginia to continue research on the value of free market policies and the common good.