What is Curtis Gans?
[[File:Curtis Gans.jpg|thumb]] '''Curtis Bernard Gans''' (June 17, 1937 &ndash; March 15, 2015) was an [[Americans|American]] activist, writer, and expert on American voting patterns.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Kaiser|first1=Charles|title=1968 in America|date=2012|publisher=Grove Press|isbn=9780802193247|page=27|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ShNLRq5nC5cC&dq=%22Curtis+Gans%22+1937&pg=PA27}}</ref> He was born in [[Brooklyn, New York]]. Gans served as a consultant to the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, the National Committee for an Effective Congress, and managed a number of political campaigns. Gans died in [[Frederick, Maryland]] from [[lung cancer]], aged 77.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Nuckols|first1=Ben|title=Activist, voter turnout expert Curtis Gans dies at 77|url=http://www.kaaltv.com/article/stories/S3736435.shtml?cat=10151|access-date=March 17, 2015|agency=Associated Press|publisher=KAAL-TV|date=March 16, 2015|archive-date=April 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402121304/http://www.kaaltv.com/article/stories/S3736435.shtml?cat=10151|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|first1=Sam|last1=Roberts|title=Curtis Gans, 77, Is Dead; Worked to Defeat President Johnson|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/us/curtis-gans-77-is-dead-worked-to-depose-president-johnson.html?ref=obituaries&_r=0|access-date=March 17, 2015|work=New York Times|date=March 16, 2015}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Gans, Curtis}} [[Category:1937 births]] [[Category:2015 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from lung cancer]] [[Category:American activists]] [[Category:Writers from New York City]] {{us-bio-stub}}