Charles Wells Russell Jr. (1856 – 1927) was an American diplomat.

[1] He would also marry both of the sisters of former Confederate Colonel, John S. Mosby and by the late 1800s have children from them both.

[2] Russell would use his position in the DOJ to hire his brother-in-law as a subordinate in the Bureau of Insular and Territorial affairs.

[3] Russell served as the United States' Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Iran from 1909 to 1914.

[4] In 1917 Russell would be listed as the editor on his brother-in-law's memoirs.