Thomas A. Russell

Thomas A. Russell (June 17, 1858 – April 8, 1938) was an American attorney who was the first law clerk at the Supreme Court of the United States.

His father, William Goodwin Russell, was a descendant of Mayflower passengers Myles Standish and John Alden.

[1] In 1882, Russell graduated from Harvard Law School,[2] and then became the first Supreme Court law clerk when he worked for Justice Horace Gray from 1882 to 1883.

[1] In 1893 and 1894, Russell was elected from Suffolk County district 11 to the Massachusetts House of Representatives as a Republican, where he served as chairman of the Committee on Elections.

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