Edward Nash Hurley (July 31, 1864 – November 14, 1933) was an American businessman and inventor who served as the second chairman of the
Federal Trade Commission from July 1, 1916 to January 31, 1917.[1] He was of Irish descent.
Biography
Hurley was born in
Galesburg, Illinois on July 31, 1864.[2] He finished high school at 17 and went to work for the railroad, ascending from shopman to engineer, and eventually becoming assistant to the president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen.[2] In 1897 he started producing pneumatic tools together with a couple of brothers and made $125,00 selling the British patent. In 1907 he became president of the National Bank of Wheaton and then founded the Hurley Machine Company, which produced vacuum cleaners and washing and ironing machines. In 1914 he was named to the Federal Trade Commission and in 1915 he became its chairman. Hurley also served on the Red Cross War Council, the War Trade Board, and as chairman of the
U.S. Shipping Board.[3] In 1919, he was awarded the
Distinguished Service Medal by the War Department for his work for the Shipping Board during World War I.[4]
He helped professor
T. G. Masaryk in a question of Czechoslovak legions and a foundation of a Czechoslovak state in 1918.[5]
In 1926 he received the
Laetare Medal and in 1933 he donated $200,000 to the
University of Notre Dame for a new building for the college, which was named Hurley Hall.[7]
Death
He died in Chicago on November 14, 1933.[8] He is buried at
Calvary Cemetery in Evanston.[9]
Works
Banking and Credit in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1914.
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^"Edward N. Hurley". Military Times. Sightline Media Group. Retrieved February 10, 2024.
^PRECLÍK, Vratislav. Masaryk a legie (TGM and legions), váz. kniha, 219 pages, vydalo nakladatelství Paris Karviná, Žižkova 2379 (734 01 Karvina, Czechia) ve spolupráci s Masarykovým demokratickým hnutím (Masaryk democratic movement in Prague), 2019,
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