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. ==Sources==