Bruce F. Sterling Explained

Bruce Foster Sterling
Image Name:Bruce Foster Sterling.jpeg
Caption:Bruce Sterling campaign card, 1916–1918
State:Pennsylvania
District:23rd
Party:Democratic Party
Term Start:March 4, 1917
Term End:March 3, 1919
Preceded:Robert F. Hopwood
Succeeded:Samuel A. Kendall
Birth Date:28 September 1870
Birth Place:Masontown, Pennsylvania
Death Place:Uniontown, Pennsylvania
Alma Mater:California State Normal School
West Virginia University

Bruce Foster Sterling (September 28, 1870 – April 26, 1945) was a Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Biography

Bruce Foster Sterling was born in Masontown, Pennsylvania. He attended the public schools of Masontown and the California State Normal School in California, Pennsylvania.

He graduated from West Virginia University in Morgantown, West Virginia, in 1895. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1896 and commenced practice in Uniontown, Pennsylvania. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1906 and was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1912, 1920 and 1924.

Sterling was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fifth Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918. He resumed the practice of law. He was elected register of wills and clerk of the orphans court of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, in 1935, 1939, and 1943.

He died at Uniontown, aged 75, and was interred in Oak Grove Cemetery.

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