Business Career
After working as a salesman from ten years, Purtell co-founded the Holo-Krome Screw Corporation of West Hartford in 1929 and served as its president, treasurer, and general manager until 1952. He also served as president, treasurer, and general manager (1937-1944) and later chairman (1944-1947) of the Billings & Spencer Company of Hartford. From 1938 to 1952, he served as vice-president, treasurer, and general manager of the Sparmal Engineering Corporation. He was also director of the Hartford Red Cross and one of the executive directors of the Connecticut State Prison.
Purtell unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for Governor of Connecticut in 1950, losing to Congressman John Davis Lodge. He was one of the first political leaders in Connecticut to support General Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election.
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