Representative Marion Bruce View All Years

Compiled Historical Information

Date of Death: 12/10/1946

Birth Place: Rolfe, Iowa

Birth County: Pocahontas

Party Affiliation: Republican

Assemblies Served:
House: 45 (1933)

Home County: Pocahontas

Family Members Who Served in the Iowa Legislature: Father: James J. Bruce; GA 21; Brother: Robert Bruce; GAs, 36, 37

Marion Bruce

Pocahontas County

Representative from Pocahontas county, in which county he was born September 21, 1870, and has resided all his life at Rolfe Iowa. Publisher of the Rolfe Arrow since 1910, an independent newspaper. Married to Gussie Wilcox September 21, 1894, and has one daughter. Was postmaster at Rolfe under McKinley, Roosevelt and Taft, where he says he wasted sixteen of the best years of his life. Is the third member of his family to serve as representative, his father, James J. Bruce, having served in the twenty-first, and his brother, Robert, having served in the thirty-sixth and thirty-seventh general assemblies. Serving first term in the legislature. A republican.

House District 77