Russell Wheeler Davenport (1899 – April 19, 1954) was an American editor, political consultant, and writer.
He served with the U.S. Army in World War I and received the Croix de Guerre.
He enrolled at Yale University and graduated in 1923, where he was classmate of Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, who founded Time.
Willkie was the Republican nominee for the 1940 presidential election in which he lost to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
After Willkie's death in 1944, Davenport became a de facto leader of the internationalist Republicans.