Ella Russell

Ella Mundhenke Russell (c. 1868 – March 6, 1956) was an American suffragette, businessperson, and politician. She was president of the Everett Suffrage Club. Russell "famously defended women's right to vote before a crowd of 6,500 during a Billy Sunday crusade", and advanced the women's suffrage cause in the city of Everett and the state of Washington. In 1924, she won the nomination as the Republican candidate for the state senate in her district, but was defeated at the election by a Republican "sticker" candidate.

Biography Russell was born in Illinois in about 1868, the daughter of Henry and Elizabeth Mundhenke. She had worked as a schoolteacher in Illinois for five years, and in Washington for two years. with whom she had four daughters and a son. Russell assisted her husband with the shingle business during his lifetime, and carried on operating the mill after his death in 1925. estimated at 5,500 or 6,500

In 1914, Russell stood as a Democratic candidate for the 48th district in the Washington House of Representatives. In 1922, she stood unsuccessfully as a Republican candidate for the House of Representatives in Thurston County. Russell contested the result, claiming that, having lost the nomination, Carlyon had no qualification to run; that stickers with his name had been placed over Russell's name, so that those intending to vote "straight" Republican voted for him; and that some state employees campaigned for Carlyon. Russell's case was dismissed unanimously, and Carlyon retained the senate seat.