Award for public service from the American Chemical Society. In 1982, Russell W. Peterson was honored to be selected as the Swedish-American of the year by the Swedish Council of America (previously the Vasa Order of America). In 1984 he was given the Robert Marshall Award by the Wilderness Society. In 1995, the League of Conservation Voters awarded him its lifetime achievement award. In 2007 he was inducted into the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame. The Russell W. Peterson Urban Wildlife Refuge, just outside Wilmington, has been named in his honor. In April 2008, a small ship was rechristened "Russell W. Peterson." The ship, owned by Aqua Survey Inc. was used for the study of migratory bird routes. However, on May 12, 2008, the "Russell W. Peterson" was destroyed in a storm off the Delaware coast, killing one of its two crew members. Peterson suffered a stroke on the morning of Monday, February 21, 2011 and died at 8:10pm that evening at home. He was survived by his wife, four children, seventeen grandchildren and sixteen great-grandchildren. Almanac Elections are held the first Tuesday after November 1. The governor takes office the third Tuesday of January and has a four-year term. See also Delaware lunar sample displays References Other sources External links Russell W. Peterson Papers, A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress The Political Graveyard Delaware Audubon Society Russell Peterson The Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Hame |- 1916 births 2011 deaths American Unitarian Universalists People from Centerville, Delaware People from Portage, Wisconsin University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Republican Party governors of Delaware American people of Swedish descent American Unitarians American environmentalists