Bruce, Blanche K
statesman, was born of slave parents March 1, 1841, in Prince Edward county, Va. He received a limited education; and became a planter in Mississippi in 1869. He was a member of the Mississippi levee board, and sheriff and tax collector of Bolivar county from 1872 until his election to the United States senate in 1875, as a republican. For many years he was register of the treasury at Washington, D. C., and was filling that position when he died in 1898.