Preceded by Robert F. Hopwood Party Democratic Party Political party Democratic Party | Name Bruce Sterling Resigned March 3, 1919 Role U.S. representative | |
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Born September 28, 1870
Masontown, Pennsylvania ( 1870-09-28 ) Alma mater California State Normal School
West Virginia University Died January 28, 1946, Uniontown, Pennsylvania, United States Education West Virginia University, California University of Pennsylvania | ||
Succeeded by Samuel Austin Kendall | ||
Bruce Foster Sterling (September 28, 1870 – April 26, 1945) was a Democrat member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.
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.