{{Short description|Australian politician}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2016}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2016}} '''Russell Stanley Leslie McDonald''' (12 May 1913 – 20 January 1980) was an Australian politician.
== Biography == McDonald was born in Kyabram to labourer Donald Alexander Leslie McDonald and Jessie Taylor.<ref>{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813070511/http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=1273 |title=McDonald, Russell Stanley Leslie |date=13 August 2012}}</ref> He ran a service station in Echuca before entering politics, and was also a local councillor (1947–58) and mayor (1956–58). Around 1938 he married Barbara Catherine Hall, with whom he had three children. In 1964 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Country Party member for Rodney.<ref name=parl>{{Cite Parliament of Victoria Member Profile |name=Russell Stanley Leslie McDonald |id=russell-mcdonald |access-date=13 September 2025}}</ref> He held the seat until his retirement in 1973. McDonald died at Echuca in 1980.
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{{s-start}} {{s-par|au-vic-la}} {{s-bef|before=Richard Brose}} {{s-ttl|title=Member for Rodney | years=1964–1973}} {{s-aft|after=Eddie Hann}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:McDonald, Russell}} Category:1913 births Category:1980 deaths Category:National Party of Australia members of the Parliament of Victoria Category:Members of the Victorian Legislative Assembly Category:20th-century Australian politicians