Harold Sines Vance (1890–1959) was an American automobile company executive and government official, notable for being chairman (1935-54) and president (1948-54) of the Studebaker Corporation and for a four-year term on the Atomic Energy Commission, where he encouraged the industrial use of nuclear energy.
Vance was born in the city of Port Huron, Michigan in 1890. He achieved moderate grades in school and, having failed the entrance examination ...
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Harold Sines Vance (1890–1959) was an American automobile company executive and government official, notable for being chairman (1935-54) and president (1948-54) of the Studebaker Corporation and for a four-year term on the Atomic Energy Commission, where he encouraged the industrial use of nuclear energy.
Vance was born in the city of Port Huron, Michigan in 1890. He achieved moderate grades in school and, having failed the entrance examination for West Point, he went to work briefly for his father's law partner whose death terminated the arrangement. In 1910, he obtained a job as a mechanic at the Port Huron branch of the E-M-F Company, which was being acquired by the Studebaker Corporation. He moved to the Detroit plant and was production vice-president in 1926 when he supervised the plant's closure and move to Studebaker's primary plant at South Bend, Indiana. By the time of the Great Depression, Vance was production vice president in the company at South Bend, working with Paul G...
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