Matthew Linn Bruce

Matthew Linn Bruce
Bruce as depicted in the October 1904 edition of The Caledonian magazine.

Lieutenant Governor of New York
In office 1905–1906
Governor	Frank W. Higgins
Preceded by	Frank W. Higgins
Succeeded by	John Raines (Acting)
Personal details
Born	(1860-10-01)October 1, 1860 Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, United States
Died	February 26, 1936(1936-02-26) (aged 75) Albany, New York, USA
Resting place	Andes Cemetery, Andes, New York
Political party	Republican
Alma mater	Rutgers College
Occupation	Attorney

Matthew Linn Bruce (October 1, 1860 in Mercersburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania – February 26, 1936 in Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Dr. James Bruce and Mary (Linn) Bruce (ca. 1830-1907). He was educated at Andes Academy, and graduated A.B. from Rutgers College as valedictorian of the class of 1884. Then he studied law in the office of Cassius M. Shaw at Andes, N.Y., and was admitted to the bar in 1889.

In 1890 removed to New York City where he resided in the Twenty-first Assembly District. He was managing clerk in the office of Hector M. Hitchings until 1892, and then opened his own law office. In 1894, he married Lillian (Ballantine) Knapp, and they had four children.

In 1903, he was President of the New York County Republican Committee, and conducted the unsuccessful campaign of Mayor Seth Low for re-election.

He was the Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1905 to 1906, elected in 1904, but defeated for re-election in November 1906 although his running mate Charles Evans Hughes was elected Governor. All other Republican candidates were defeated by the nominees of the Democratic/Independence League fusion ticket. On December 5, 1906, he resigned and was appointed by Governor Frank W. Higgins a justice of the New York Supreme Court to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Justice Morgan J. O'Brien, and remained on the bench until the end of 1907. In 1908, he resumed the practice of law, but on October 13 of the same year he was reappointed to the Supreme Court by Gov. Hughes to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Justice David Leventritt, and remained on the bench until the end of the year. In November 1908, he ran for the Supreme Court on the Republican ticket to succeed himself, but was defeated by the Democratic candidate Irving Lehman.

Sources

The Rep. nominees, in NYT on September 16, 1904
Bruce resigned and appointed justice, in NYT on December 6, 1906
Political Graveyard
His mother's obit, transcribed from Brooklyn Standard Union of at RootsWeb
Bios of Men of 1914, transcribed from Builders of Our Nation (American Publishers' Association, 1915)

External links

Picture postcard of his residence at Andes, N.Y.

Political offices
Preceded by Frank W. Higgins	Lieutenant Governor of New York 1905–1906	Succeeded by John Raines Acting

Governors and Lieutenant Governors of New York

Governors	G. Clinton Jay G. Clinton Lewis Tompkins Tayler D. Clinton Yates D. Clinton Pitcher Van Buren Throop Marcy Seward Bouck Wright Young Fish Hunt Seymour Clark King Morgan Seymour Fenton Hoffman J. Adams Dix Tilden Robinson Cornell Cleveland Hill Flower Morton Black T. Roosevelt Odell Higgins Hughes White J. Alden Dix Sulzer Glynn Whitman Smith Miller Smith F. Roosevelt Lehman Poletti Dewey Harriman Rockefeller Wilson Carey M. Cuomo Pataki Spitzer Paterson A. Cuomo

Lieutenant Governors	Van Cortlandt S. Van Rensselaer J. Van Rensselaer Broome Tayler Clinton Tayler Swift Tayler Root Tallmadge Pitcher P. Livingston Dayan Throop Stebbins Oliver E. Livingston Tracy Bradish Dickinson Gardiner Lester Fish Patterson Church Raymond Selden Campbell Floyd-Jones Alvord Woodford Beach Robinson Dorsheimer Hoskins Hill McCarthy Jones Sheehan Saxton Woodruff Higgins Bruce Raines Chanler White Cobb Conway Glynn Wagner Schoeneck Walker Wood Lusk Lunn Lowman Corning Lehman Bray Poletti Hanley Wallace Hanley Moore Wicks Mahoney DeLuca Wilson Anderson Krupsak Cuomo DelBello Anderson Lundine McCaughey Donohue Paterson Bruno Skelos Smith Espada Ravitch Duffy Hochul

Italics indicate acting officeholders

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