William Cabell Bruce

William Cabell Bruce

William Cabell Bruce (* 12. March 1860 in Staunton Hill , Charlotte County , Virginia ; †  9. May 1946 in Ruxton , Maryland ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party , of the State of Maryland in the US Senate represented.

Young William Cabell Bruce was educated at Norwood High School and Nelson County College . He later attended the University of Virginia and finally graduated from the University of Maryland Law School in 1882 . He was then inducted into the Bar Association and began practicing in Baltimore .

His political career began in the Maryland Senate , of which Bruce was a member from 1894 to 1896; in his last year in office he was President of the Chamber of Parliament. From 1903 to 1908 he was the legal department of the city of Baltimore. From 1910 to 1922 he was chief legal advisor to the Maryland Public Service Commission. He resigned after being elected to the US Senate. Six years earlier he had made a futile attempt to win a seat in Congress .

In the next election, however, he was defeated by Republican Phillips Lee Goldsborough , so that his time in the Senate ended on March 3, 1929. He then worked again as a lawyer until he retired in 1937.

William Cabell Bruce was also active as a writer. He wrote the book Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed , a biography of Benjamin Franklin , for which he received the Pulitzer Prize in 1918 in the autobiography / biography category.

Web links

• William Cabell Bruce in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William Cabell Bruce in the database of Find a Grave (English)