Curran also served as the superintendent of the Chicago West Park Board.

Curran served in the Illinois House of Representatives from 1907 until his death in 1928.

Curran was killed in an automobile accident when the automobile hit a tree on Wisconsin Highway 41, five miles west from Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Curran and his passengers were driving from Waukesha, Wisconsin to Chicago.

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