Laurence Curtis

Laurence Curtis (1961)

Laurence Curtis (born September 3, 1893 in Boston , Massachusetts , †  July 11, 1989 there ) was an American politician . Between 1953 and 1963 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Laurence Curtis attended the Groton School until 1912 and then studied at Harvard University until 1916 . He then served in the diplomatic service for a year. During the First World War , he joined the US Navy . He lost a leg in a training accident; until the end of the war he was an officer in the office in Pensacola . He was awarded the Silver Star for his services . After a subsequent law degree at Harvard and his admission as a lawyer in 1921, Curtis began to practice in Boston in this profession. In 1921 and 1922 he also worked for federal judge Oliver Wendell Holmes . Between 1923 and 1925 he was assistant federal attorney for Boston.

Politically, Curtis was a member of the Republican Party . Between 1930 and 1933 he was a member of the Boston City Council; from 1933 to 1936 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts . After that he was a member of the State Senate from 1936 to 1941 . From 1947 to 1948 he was the successor to John E. Hurley State Treasurer of Massachusetts; In 1950 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of lieutenant governor . He also held leading positions in the regional and nationwide Organization for Disabled Veterans ( DAV ). In 1960 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where Richard Nixon was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the 1952 congressional election , Curtis was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Christian Herter on January 3, 1953 . After four re-elections, he was able to complete five legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1963 . These were determined by the events of the Cold War and the civil rights movement . In 1962 Curtis renounced another candidacy for the US House of Representatives. Instead, he unsuccessfully sought his party's nomination for the US Senate elections .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, he worked as a lawyer again. In 1968, 1970, and 1972 he competed unsuccessfully for his return to Congress. He failed twice in the actual congressional elections and once (1972) in the primary elections. Laurence Curtis spent his old age in Newton and died on July 11, 1989 in Boston.

Web links

• Laurence Curtis in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)