Samuel Bruce Huston (March 16, 1858 – November 30, 1920) was an American politician and lawyer in Oregon.

[2] He was admitted to the Indiana bar in December 1879 before entering private legal practice in that state.

[2] Huston then briefly practiced law in Illinois before working for the Santa Fe Railroad Company in New Mexico, remaining until the Spring of 1883.

[1] Settling for a short time in Forest Grove where he worked in a flour mill and on a farm, he moved to neighboring Hillsboro in January 1884 and set up a law practice.

[2] In 1906, he moved to Portland, where he continued to practice law and served as a member of the city's commercial club.

[5] Huston was involved with other cases of the land fraud as well as more than ten murder trials, primarily as a defense attorney.

[14] On November 30, 1920, Samuel Huston died of a heart attack while in the Federal Courthouse in Portland in Judge Charles E. Wolverton's courtroom while waiting for a trial to resume from the lunch recess.