Emil Hurja

Who was Emil Hurja?

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'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.