William Cabell Bruce

William Cabell Bruce (1860–1946) was an American lawyer, politician and author. Born in Virginia and trained in law at the University of Maryland, he practiced in Baltimore, served in the Maryland Senate and as city solicitor, and from 1923 to 1929 sat in the United States Senate as a Democrat. His two-volume Benjamin Franklin, Self-Revealed, published in 1917, won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1918. He also wrote a life of John Randolph of Roanoke and books of essays and recollections.