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GEORGE BRUCE, statesman, was born in New York City, July 26, 1862. He was a general law reporter, private secretary to several public officials, and head master of a school at Hempstead, N. Y. Private secretary to Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, 1896-1903; Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 1903-1904; Postmaster-General 1905-1907; Secretary of the Treasury, 1907-1909. President of Consolidated Gas Co., New York, after 1909, and a director in numerous corporations.