The senior Curry, a merchant and planter, had been part of the posse in 1878 which apprehended some one thousand African Americans in a revolt near Waterproof against then parish judge and later State Senator Charles C. Cordill.
The senior Curry was first a deputy sheriff and then was elected Tensas Parish clerk of court, a position which he retained for many years.
Curry was chairman for part of his tenure of the Public Works, Lands, and Levee Committee, a panel of particular importance to the parishes along the Mississippi River.
[4] Originally anti-Long, like most of the planter class, Curry by his second full term had begun to vote increasingly with the Long faction that he had first opposed.
The particular blot to the planter came with the unseating in 1936 of U.S. Representative Riley J. Wilson, one of Huey Long's unsuccessful gubernatorial primary opponents in 1928.