LAURENCE CURTIS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP61-00357R000300200076-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 15, 2004
• Sequence Number: 76
• Content Type: BIO

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LAURENCE CURTIS
LAURENCE CURTIS, Republican, of Boston, Mass.; born
September 3. 1893, in Boston, Mass.; graduated from Harvard, A. B.,
in 1916 and served for a year in United States Foreign Diplomatic
Service; during World War I served in the United States Navy and after
a training crash in naval aviation, resulting in the loss of a leg, served
out the rest of the war as a ground officer at Pensacola, Fla. ; awarded
Silver Star Citation; graduated Harvard Law School in 1921; secretary
to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Washington, D. C.,
for a year; returned to Boston in 1922 to practice law and became an
assistant United States District Attorney; married Helen Louise
Schryveer of Willtamsto
. , December 6, 1952; since January
1930 served as an elected official for 16 years--4 years city council,
4 years State house of representatives, 6 years State senate, and 2
years State treasurer; president of the Law Society of Massachusetts
1947; chairman of Massachusetts Division of the American Cancer
Society drive in 1949; chairman of Suffolk County March of Dimes
drive in 1952; member of Moose, Elks, Masons, Sons of the Revolution,
Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations, American Legion, and
the Disabled American Veterans (department commander 1944-45, and
national senior vice commander 1945-46); elected to the Eighty-third
Congress November 4, 1952; reelected to the
fourth Congress
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November 2, 1954; reelected to the Eighty-fifth Congress Novo, ber 6,
1956; reelected to. _Eighty-sixth Congress.
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