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| | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell''' (August 18, 1792 - May 28, 1878), known as '''Lord John Russell before 1861, was a Whig politician who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in the mid-19th century. |
 | | In 1834, when the leader of the Commons, John Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl SpencerLord Althorp, succeeded to the peerage as Earl Spencer, Russell became the leader of the Whigs in the Commons, a position he maintained for the rest of the decade, until the Whigs fell from power in 1841. |
 | | Russell was elevated to the peerage as Viscount Amberley''', of Amberley in the County of Gloucester and of Ardsalla in the County of Meath, and '''Earl Russell, of Kingston Russell in the County of Dorset, in 1861/. |
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