Biography

10/01/1907 - 03/12/1994

BLAIR, Russell Jenkins, a Representative from Fayette County; born in Perryopolis, Fayette County, Pa., October 1, 1907; graduated, Perry Township High School, 1926; attended, California State Teachers College (now Pennsylvania Western University, California); funeral director; elected, mayor, Perryopolis (1953-1969); elected as a Democrat to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in 1966; served 2 more consecutive terms; not a candidate for reelection to the House (1972); died, March 12, 1994 in Perryopolis, Fayette County, Pennsylvania; interred, Mount Washington Cemetery, Perryopolis, Fayette County, Pennsylvania.