Bruce Foster Sterling

Bruce Foster Sterling ( born September 28, 1870 in Masontown, Fayette County, Pennsylvania, † April 26, 1945 in Uniontown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1917 and 1919 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Bruce Sterling attended the common schools and the State Normal School in California. Subsequently, he studied until 1895 at West Virginia University in Morgantown. After a subsequent law degree in 1896 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Uniontown to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In 1906 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. In the years 1912, 1920 and 1924, he participated as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions relevant.

In the congressional elections of 1916, Sterling was the 23rd electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Republican Robert Freeman Hopwood on March 4, 1917. Since he has not been confirmed in 1918, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1919. This was marked by the events of the First World War.

After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Bruce Sterling practiced as a lawyer again. In the years 1935, 1939 and 1943 he was executor ( Register of Wills ) and usher in the orphans court in Fayette County. He died on April 26, 1945 in Uniontown, where he was also buried.