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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MarylandBRUCE, William Cabell
(1860—1946)
Senate Years of Service:
1923-1929
Party:
Democrat
BRUCE, William Cabell, a Senator from Maryland; born in Staunton Hill, Charlotte County, Va., March 12, 1860; received an academic education at Norwood High School and College, Nelson County, Va.; attended the University of Virginia at Charlottesville; graduated from the University of Maryland Law School at Baltimore in 1882; admitted to the Maryland bar the same year and commenced practice in Baltimore, Md.; lawyer and writer; received the Pulitzer Prize in 1917 for his biography of Benjamin Franklin; member, State senate 1894-1896, serving as president in 1896; head of the city law department of Baltimore 1903-1908; member, Baltimore Charter Commission 1910; general counsel to the Public Service Commission of Maryland 1910-1922, when he resigned; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for United States Senator in 1916; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1923, to March 3, 1929; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1928; resumed the practice of law in Baltimore until 1937, when he retired; died in Ruxton, Baltimore County, Md., May 9, 1946; interment in St. Thomas’ Episcopal Church Cemetery, Garrison, Md.
Bibliography
American National Biography
; Dictionary of American Biography
; Bruce, William C. Recollections
. Baltimore: King Brothers, 1936; Moore, John Hammond. “William Cabell Bruce, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Distribution of Ability in the United States.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
86 (July 1978): 355-61.
Bruce, William Cabell. Additional Selections from the Speeches, Addresses, etc., of Wm. Cabell Bruce
. Baltimore: King Brothers, 1928.
___. Below the James, a Plantation Sketch.
1918. Rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1927.
___. Benjamin Franklin
. 1917. 3d ed. New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1942. Originally published in two volumes.
___. Imaginary Conversations with Franklin
. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1933.
___. The Inn of Existence
. Baltimore: King Bros., 1941.
___. John Randolph of Roanoke, 1773-1833: A Biography Based Largely on New Material
. 2 vols. 1922. Reprint. New York: Octagon Books, 1970.
___. Latest Additional Selections from the Speeches, Addresses and Writings of Wm. Cabell Bruce
. Baltimore: Press of the Daily Record Co., 1934.
___. The Negro Problem
. Baltimore: J. Murphy Co., 1891.
___. Recollections
. Baltimore: King Brothers, 1936.
___. Selections from the Speeches, Addresses, and Political Writings of Wm. Cabell Bruce
. Baltimore: Sun Book Job Printing Office, 1927.
Moore, John Hammond. “William Cabell Bruce, Henry Cabot Lodge, and the Distribution of Ability in the United States.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
86 (July 1978): 355-61.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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