William Bruce
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William Cabell Bruce (1860 - 1946)

William Cabell Bruce
Born in Charlotte, Virginia, United Statesmap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 15 Oct 1887 in Baltimore, Maryland, United Statesmap
Descendants descendants
Died at age 86 in Baltimore, Maryland, United Statesmap
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Preceded by
Joseph I. France
William Cabell Bruce
US Senator (Class 1)
from Maryland
Seal of the US Senate
1923—1929
Succeeded by
Phillips Lee Goldsborough

Biography

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William Bruce is Notable.

William was born in 1860, in Charlotte County, Virginia. He was the son of Charles Bruce and Sarah Alexander Seddon.

He studied at the Norwood High School and College in Nelson County, Virginia from 1875-78. He then at the University of Virginia from 1879-80. He then went to the University of Maryland School of Law, graduating in 1882. He also received a Bachelor of Laws (LL. D) from Hampden-Sydney College.

On 15 Oct 1887, in Baltimore, Maryland, he married Louise Este Fisher. They had four sons.

  1. William Fisher Bruce b. Oct 1890 - d. Jan 1892, age 1 1/2
  2. James Cabell Bruce b. 1892 MD - d. 1980 NY, m. Ellen McHenry Keyser. James was a banker and served as U.S. ambassador to Argentina in the 1940s[1].
  3. William Cabell Bruce b. 1895 - d. 1910, age 15
  4. David Kirkland Este Bruce b. 1898 MD - d. 1977 D.C., m1/div. Ailsa Mellon, m2. Evangeline Bell. David was an intelligence officer and served as ambassador to France, the Federal Republic of Germany, and the United Kingdom, the only American to be all three[2].

Career:

  • 1887-1903 & 1908-10, law partner at Fisher, Bruce & Fisher
  • 1894-96, Maryland State Senate, elected member
  • 1896, Maryland State Senate, president
  • 1903-08, Head of Baltimore Law Department
  • 1910, member of Baltimore Charter Commission
  • 1910-22 & 1929-35, General Counsel, Public Service Commission of Maryland
  • 1923-29, United States Senator for Maryland

Published works:

  • Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed: A Biographical Sketch and Critical Study Based Mainly on His Own Writings; New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1917. (Available online: Vol. I[1], Vol. II.[2]). He received a Pulitzer Prize in 1918 in for this book[3].
  • Below the James: A Plantation Sketch; New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1918. (Available here [3].)
  • John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773–1833; A Biography Based Largely on New Material, in 2 volumes; New York, London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922. (Available online: Vol. I[4], Vol. II.[5])
  • Imaginary Conversations with Franklin, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.

Recollections: and, The Inn of Existence, 1936.

  • The Negro problem [6](1891)

Sources

  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Cabell_Bruce
  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_K._E._Bruce
  3. https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=b000972
  • [7] The Cabells and Their Kin: A Memorial Volume of History, Biography, and Genealogy Alexander Brown January 1, 1895 Houghton, Mifflin & Company: parents, Siblings, Birth, Children, Wife, Marriage pages 335 -338




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