American politician (1860?1946)
William Cabell Bruce
(March 12, 1860 – May 9, 1946) was an American politician and
Pulitzer Prize
-winning writer who represented the
State of Maryland
in the
United States Senate
from 1923 to 1929.
Background
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Bruce was born in
Charlotte County, Virginia
to Charles and Sarah Alexander (Seddon) Bruce (a sister of
James Seddon
), and received an academic education at Norwood High School and College in
Nelson County, Virginia
. He later attended the
University of Virginia
where he bested
Woodrow Wilson
in both a highly contested formal debate and an essay competition.
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In 1882, he graduated from the
University of Maryland School of Law
.
Career
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Bruce was admitted to the Maryland
bar
the same year and commenced law practice in
Baltimore, Maryland
. In addition to his career in law, Bruce was also writer, and received a
Pulitzer Prize
in 1918 for his book
Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed
.
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Bruce began his political career in the
Maryland Senate
, serving from 1894 to 1896, and was appointed as president of the Senate in 1896. He served as head of the city law department of Baltimore from 1903 to 1908; as a member of the Baltimore Charter Commission in 1910; and as general counsel to the
Maryland Public Service Commission
from 1910 to 1922, at which time he resigned.
Bruce was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1916, but achieved election six years later in the
election of 1922
. Bruce was defeated in the next
election in 1928
by Republican
Phillips Lee Goldsborough
, and resumed the practice of law in Baltimore until 1937, when he retired.
Personal and death
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Bruce married Louise Este Fisher on October 15, 1887. They had four sons, William Fisher Bruce,
James Cabell Bruce
, William Cabell Bruce, and
David K. E. Bruce
.
He died in
Ruxton, Maryland
, on May 9, 1946. He is buried at St. Thomas' Episcopal Church Cemetery in
Garrison, Maryland
.
Select works
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- 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
,
Vol. II
.)
- Below the James: A Plantation Sketch
; New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1918. (Available
online
.)
- 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
,
Vol. II
.)
- Imaginary Conversations with Franklin
, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1933.
- Recollections: and, The Inn of Existence
, 1936.
- The Negro problem
at the
Internet Archive
(1891)
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