George Anson Bruce | |
Term Start: | 1884 |
Term End: | 1884 |
Successor: | Albert E. Pillsbury |
Term Start2: | 1882 |
Term End2: | 1884 |
Predecessor2: | Elisha S. Converse |
Successor2: | Eliazer Boynton |
Term Start3: | January 1878 |
Term End3: | January 1881 |
Successor3: | John A. Cummings |
Office4: | Member of the Somerville, Massachusetts Board of Aldermen Ward 2 |
Term Start4: | January 1876 |
Term End4: | January 1877 |
Office5: | Member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives |
Term Start5: | 1866 |
Term End5: | 1866 |
Birth Date: | 19 November 1839 |
Death Place: | Brookline, Massachusetts |
Nationality: | American |
Spouse: | Clara M. Hall |
Children: | Clara Augusta Hall, born November 19, 1882. |
Alma Mater: | Dartmouth, class of 1861 |
Signature: | Signature of George Anson Bruce (1839–1929).png |
Serviceyears: | August 1862-July 3, 1865 |
Rank: | Private, First Lieutenant, 1862 ; Major, (1864); Lieutenant Colonel, (1865). |
Unit: | Thirteenth New Hampshire Volunteers |
Battles: | American Civil War |
George Anson Bruce (November 19, 1839 – January 31, 1929) was an American politician who served as a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, on the Board of Aldermen and as the fourth Mayor of Somerville, Massachusetts; and as a member, and President of, the Massachusetts Senate.
Bruce was born to Nathaniel and Lucy (Butterfield) Bruce in Mont Vernon, New Hampshire on November 19, 1839.
Bruce married Clara M. Hall of Groton, Massachusetts, they had one daughter, Clara Augusta, who was born November 19, 1882.
George A. Bruce died in Brookline, Massachusetts on January 31, 1929, at 89 years of age..[1]