Russell Vernon Mack (June 13, 1891 –
March 28, 1960) served as a member of the United
States House of Representatives representing Washington State's
3rd District from 1947 to 1960. He was born in 1891, in Hillman, Michigan. Mack moved to Aberdeen, Washington in
1895. Mack was educated at Stanford University in
California, and then at the University of Washington in
Seattle. Mack served as a corporal in the Thirty-ninth Field
Artillery, Thirteenth Division,
during World War I. Before
serving in Congress, Mack worked in journalism in the Grays Harbor area, first
at the Aberdeen
Daily World from 1913 to 1934, then as the owner and
publisher of the Hoquiam Daily Washingtonian from 1934 to 1950. Mack
was the last Republican to serve the 3rd district, until Linda Smith was
elected in 1994. Mack died on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on
March 28, 1960, of cardiac arrest[1] and has a scholarship named after him. Mack
voted in favor of the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1960.