Daniel D. Pratt

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(October 26, 1813 — June 17, 1877) Pratt was a teacher, lawyer, and politician. Daniel Darwin Pratt was born in Palermo, Maine and moved to New York with his parents. After graduating from Hamilton College in New York, Pratt moved to Indiana in 1832 where he taught school and worked in the office of the Indiana Secretary of State. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1836. Pratt served in the State House of Representatives from 1851 to 1853. In 1868, he was elected as a Republican to the Forty-First Congress but resigned on January 27, 1869, having been elected as a Senator. He served in the Senate from March 4, 1869 to March 3, 1875. [Source: “Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - Present,” available at https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/P000497]

Member of Indiana Delgation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875.

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