Harlow Curtice

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Harlow Herbert Curtice (August 15, 1893 – November 3, 1962) was a senior executive in the American auto industry who led GM from 1953 to 1958.

Curtice, GM's CEO, was named Man of the Year by TIME magazine in 1955. Curtice was born in Petrieville, Michigan.

He joined GM at the age of 20 and moved from an AC Spark Plug division to the head of the company by age 36, creating a profitable division amid the depression.

In the 1930s, he was nominated to head GM's Buick division, which made it profitable. Curtice was executive vice president of GM in 1948 and then went to the presidency in 1953 as GM president Charles Wilson was Secretary of Defense.

GM became the first company to achieve $1 billion in revenues in a year as a president, with Curtice as president. Curtice retired in 1958 just after his 65th birthday.

He mistakenly shot and killed a friend while duck hunting the following year.

He died in 1962 at the age of 69.

Early life

Curtice was born in Petrieville, Michigan, on August 15, 1893, the son of Marion Curtice and the late Mary Ellen Eckhart, and she was raised in Eaton Rapids, Michigan, where she attended Eaton Rapids High School. He stored the books for his father, a commission merchant, and also worked in a woolen mill during school vacations. In 1914, he graduated from Ferris Business College. Curtice began his meteoric climb at GM after moving to Flint, Michigan, later in 1914. He began working as a bookkeeper for GM's AC Spark Plug Division. In his work interview with the company comptroller, the 20-year-old told him that his dream was to become a comptroller himself within a year. He did so, becoming AC Spark Plug's comptroller at just 21 years old. Curtice went beyond the ledger, investigating the plant to find out what the figures were in terms of men and equipment.

Curtice began his career as an Army enlisted man, moving to AC Spark Plug in 1923 as the assistant general manager in 1929. Although other product lines were harmed or destroyed by the depression, Curtice's AC Spark Plug Division expanded and prospered.

Later life

Curtice retired on August 31, 1958, after 65 years old. He was still a GM executive. On a duck hunting trip to Canada in 1959, Harry W. Anderson mistakenly shot and killed him.

Curtice lived in Flint for his entire life. He died in 1962, aged 69, of an apparent heart attack, and was laid to rest in Glenwood Cemetery.

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