Russell McWhortor Cunningham

Infobox Governor
name=Russell McWhortor Cunningham


order=Acting
office=Governor of Alabama
term_start=April 25, 1904
term_end=March 6, 1905
lieutenant=None
Acting Governor for William Jelks
predecessor=William Jelks
successor=William Jelks
birth_date=August 25, 1855
birth_place=Mt. Hope, Lawrence County, Alabama
death_date=June 6, 1921 (aged 66)
death_place=Birmingham, Alabama
party=Democrat
spouse=
profession=Surgeon, Physician
religion=
order2= 4^th
office2= Lieutenant Governor of Alabama
term_start2= 1903
term_end2= 1907
governor2= William Jelks
predecessor2= Robert F. Ligon (1876)
successor2= Henry B. Gray

Russell McWhortor Cunningham (August 25 1855–June 6 1921) was an American Democratic politician who was the acting Governor of Alabama from April 25 1904 to March 5 1905. He was lieutenant governor when Governor William D. Jelks fell ill and left the state for treatment, and since the Alabama Constitution requires that if the governor leave the state for more than 20 days, the lieutenant governor must act as governor until their return.

Although he was de jure only an interim chief of the state administration, because he served as Acting Gov. for nearly a year, he is regarded as one of the Alabama Governor by the state government, and his portrait hanging along other Governor's portrait, as well as he figured on official state site alongside them.

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