John Chandler (Chan) Gurney Biography


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GURNEY, Chan (John Chandler), a Senator from South Dakota; born in Yankton, 
S. Dak., May 21,1896; attended the public schools and was graduated from the 
high school at Yankton, S. Dak., in 1914; during the First World War served 
as a sergeant in Company A, Thirty-fourth Engineers, United States Army, with 
service overseas from August 1918 to April 1919; engaged in the seed and 
nursery business 1914-1926; operator of a radio station at Yankton, S. Dak., 
1926-1932; moved to Sioux Falls, S. Dak., and engaged in the wholesale gasoline 
and oil business 1932-1936; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United 
States Senate in 1936; elected as a Republican in 1938 to the United States 
Senate; reelected in 1944 and served from January 3, 1939, to January 3, 1951; 
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1950; appointed a member of the 
Civil Aeronautics Board March 9, 1951, reappointed in 1958 for term ending 
December 31, 1964; resides in Arlington, Va.