{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Russell Errett | image = Russell Errett - Brady-Handy.jpg | caption = | state1 = Pennsylvania | district1 = 22nd | term_start1 = March 4, 1877 | term_end1 = March 3, 1883 | preceded1 = James Herron Hopkins | succeeded1 = James Herron Hopkins | office2= Member of the Pennsylvania Senate | term2= 1867 | birth_date = {{birth date|1817|11|10}} | death_date = {{death date and age|1891|04|07|1817|11|10}} | birth_place = New York City, New York | death_place = Carnegie, Pennsylvania | party = Republican }} '''Russell Errett''' (November 10, 1817 – April 7, 1891) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
==Biography== Russell Errett was born in New York City. In 1829 he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and became engaged in newspaper work.<ref name=congbio>{{CongBio|id=E000207|inline=yes|date=April 13, 2017}}</ref> Among the papers he edited were the Pittsburgh ''Daily Sun'', a small penny journal; the ''Washington Patriot'', an anti-slavery weekly of Washington, Pennsylvania; and the ''Pittsburgh Gazette''.<ref>{{cite book |author=Thomas, Clarke M. |title=Front-Page Pittsburgh: Two Hundred Years of the Post-Gazette |publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press |year=2005 |pages=78–79 |isbn=0-8229-4248-8 |url=http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=pittpress;cc=pittpress;view=toc;idno=31735062136266 }}</ref> He was elected comptroller of Pittsburgh in 1860. He served as clerk of the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1860, 1861, and 1872 to 1876. During the American Civil War, Errett was appointed additional paymaster in the United States Army in 1861 and served until mustered out in 1866. He was a member of the Pennsylvania State Senate in 1867. He was appointed assessor of internal revenue in 1869, and served until 1873.<ref name=congbio/> He conducted the ''Pittsburgh Commercial'' newspaper from 1873 to 1876.<ref>{{cite book|last=Griswold|first=Ada Tyng|title=Annotated Catalogue of Newspaper Files in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin|year=1911|edition=Second|page=258|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h2oaAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA258}}</ref>
Errett was elected as a Republican to the 45th, 46th, and 47th Congresses. He served as chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings during the 47th Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1882. He was appointed by President Chester A. Arthur as United States pension agent at Pittsburgh in 1883 and served in this capacity until May 1887. He died in Carnegie, Pennsylvania, in 1891. Interment was in Chartiers Cemetery.<ref name=congbio/>
Russell's younger brother Isaac Errett was the founding editor of the ''Christian Standard'' and a figure in the American Restoration Movement.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Foster |editor-first1=Douglas A. |display-editors=etal |title=The Encyclopedia of the Stone-Campbell Movement |year=2004 |publisher=Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |location=Grand Rapids, Michigan |isbn=978-0-8028-3898-8 |page=301}}</ref>
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