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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | David K. E. Bruce |
| Address |
, Maryland , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
| Born |
February 12, 1898
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| Died | December 05, 1977
(79 years)
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| Contributor | Ben |
| Last Modifed | Juan Croniqueur
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Army - Anglican - Episcopalian -
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| Info | David Kirkparick Este Bruce
Bruce was born in 1898 in Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at Princeton and the Universities of Virginia and Maryland, and served in the army in both wars. In 1944 he was amongst the advanced party liberating Paris, but he arrived only to find Ernest Hemingway already ensconced in the writer's favourite bar!
Bruce was a member of the Maryland and Virginia Houses of Delegates (1924-6 and 1939-42 respectively) and he entered the diplomatic service in 1926, a service to which he was to return after the war, entering the European Cooperation Administration in 1948. He was US ambassador to France (1949-52), West Germany (1957-59) and Great Britain (1961-69), playing a leading role in assisting the postwar recovery of Western Europe. David Bruce died in 1977.
Military:
US Army
Family:
Father - William Cabell Bruce (US Senator)
Brother - James Bruce
First Wife - Alisa Mellon (richest woman in America, m. 1926, div. 1945)
Second Wife - Evangeline Bell (former OSS official, d. Dec-1995)
Daughter - Audrey Bruce Currier (by Alisa, disappeared 1967)
Son - David Bruce
Education:
Baltimore, MD Public Schools
Princeton University (Undergraduate)
University of Virginia (Graduate)
University of Maryland (Law School)
Career:
U.S. Ambassador China, 1973-74
U.S. Ambassador Great Britain, 1961-69
U.S. Ambassador Germany, 1957-59
U.S. Ambassador France, 1949-52
OSS Agent 1941-45
State House of Representatives Virginia, 1939-42
State House of Representatives Maryland, 1924-26
American Red Cross Chief Representative in Great Britain, 1940
Honors/Awards:
Presidential Medal of Freedom 1976
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