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Daniel Russell

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ5218650 ↗
Source-derived summary

Daniel, Dan, or Danny Russell may refer to:

Daniel Russell (Massachusetts politician) (1824–1907), American politician

Daniel Lindsay Russell (1845–1908), governor of North Carolina

Dan Russell (cartoonist) (1906–1999), Australian cartoonist

Dan Monroe Russell Jr.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1824, 1907, 1845, 1908—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Daniel, Russell and Wikimedia.
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This entry incorporates text from “Daniel Russell” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.