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Ganson Purcell
Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ganson Purcell (1905 – November 21, 1967)[1] served as chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission between 1942[2] and 1946[3] and also served as a member from 1941[4] to 1946 as the replacement to Jerome Frank. He graduated from Williams College in 1927 and Harvard Law School in 1930.[5]
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