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Andrew Alexander Bruce was born on April 15, 1866 in Nunda Drug, Madras Presidency, India, the son of General Edward Archibald Bruce, of the British Indian Army, and Anne Young (McMaster) Bruce. He is said to have been descended from Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland.
According to custom, Andrew was sent home to England for his schooling and attended Holmesdale House, Sussex, 1874-79, and Bath College, Bath, 1879-81.
Seeking fortune in the West, he reached Minnesota, where he worked as a farm hand while attending high school and preparing for college. He was graduated both in arts and in law at the University of Wisconsin, with a Phi Beta Kappa and football record.
In 1881 his father died, and the boy was to have joined one of his uncles, living abroad; but by some one's misunderstanding Andrew Bruce found himself, deserted and alone, at the age of fifteen, on a steamer bound for the United States.
Landed in New York, an orphan and a penniless immigrant, he began a career that was a remarkable example of character conquering circumstance.
Following his graduation from the University of Wisconsin he was successively secretary to the justices of the Wisconsin supreme court (1892 - 94); chief clerk of the law department of the Wisconsin Central Railway Company in Chicago (1892); and attorney to the Illinois State Board of Factory Inspectors (1893 - 95). For a few years he practised law in Chicago but left this work in 1898 to become a professor of law.
He taught first at the University of Wisconsin (1898 - 1902), and from there he went to the University of North Dakota, where from 1904 to 1911 he served also as dean of the law school. In the latter year he resigned to accept an appointment to the state supreme court.
He was returned to the court by election in 1912 and from 1916 to 1919 he was chief justice.
Desiring a greater opportunity for research in the law, and more freedom to express his opinions on current problems, he retired from the bench and returned to teaching, first at the University of Minnesota (1919 - 22) and then at Northwestern University (1922 - 34). During the various stages of his career, Bruce's wide circle of social interests had led to numerous positions of public and national influence--in the Universal Congress of Lawyers at the St. Louis exposition in 1904, in the Citizens' Advisory Committee of the Chicago police department, in the general council of the American Bar Association, in the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, the Chicago Juvenile Protective Association and the Hull-House Advisory Board, the Illinois Commission on Pardons and Paroles, and the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.
He died of a heart attack, following a bronchial infection.
During the years of 1916-1919 Andrew Alexander Bruce became one of the most important and respected personalities in public affairs. In addition to his positions in the university and on the court he served as president of the state bar association and as chairman of the board of law examiners--achieving the four highest posts in the legal profession in the state. Here is the list of organizations where he served: in the Universal Congress of Lawyers at the St. Louis exposition in 1904, in the Citizens' Advisory Committee of the Chicago police department, in the general council of the American Bar Association, in the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, the Chicago Juvenile Protective Association and the Hull-House Advisory Board, the Illinois Commission on Pardons and Paroles, and the American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology. As speaker on behalf of civic causes, he was greatly in demand and made hundreds of addresses, asking no compensation. Besides many articles in legal and other periodicals he published Property and Society (1916), a penetrating examination of the function of property in society; Non-Partisan League (1921), a history of the North Dakota agrarian movement; and The American Judge (1924), a unique study of the evolution of an elective judiciary, with a discussion of its merits and defects. He also revised and published in 1931 the fourth edition of Cooley's standard work, The General Principles of Constitutional Law in the United States.
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He was a member of the American Bar Association and of the Chicago Juvenile Protective Association.
In character Bruce was an unusual combination of heart and intellect--sturdily conscientious, unselfish without limit, modest to excess, and actively sympathetic with every aspect of others' misery and misfortune.
Bruce had married, on June 29, 1899, Elizabeth Bacon Pickett, daughter of Joseph D. Pickett, at one time president of the University of Kentucky. They had two children: a son, Edward, and a daughter, Glenn.
