Emil Edward Hurja was an American politician. He founded a newspaper called "Breckenridge" in a Texas oil town, and is known to have bummed his way to Seattle in the hayrack of a cattle car from Michigan. Hurja was 6'1" and weighed 218 pounds. He married a blonde girl named Gudrun whose father was a miner in the Yukon.

Hurja was a pioneer of political opinion polling, and an important person during Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

's presidency in respect of social and economic reforms. He was a son of Finnish immigrants.

Hurja appeared on the cover of Time Magazine in March 1936. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery

Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, is a military cemetery in the United States of America, established during the American Civil War on the grounds of Arlington House, formerly the estate of the family of Confederate general Robert E. Lee's wife Mary Anna Lee, a great...

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