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