Charles Curtis

Charles Curtis competed in the 1932 curling demonstration events. He was with the Massachusetts team and was a native Bostonian. Curtis was a member of The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts that did have curling facilities.

Curtis attended the Groton School and then graduated from Harvard in 1914, after which he obtained a law degree from Harvard in 1917. He became a partner in Choate, Hall & Stewart, after serving in the Navy during World War I. In 1923 he joined with brother Richard Curtis to form their own independent firm, but they later merged with Choate, Hall & Stewart and he re-joined that firm.

Curtis was a noted author, publishing The Practical Cogitator, A Commonplace Book, and The Oppenheimer Case, an analysis of the nation’s security system in relation to J. Robert Oppenheimer. He died tragically in a house fire.