Ruth Baker Pratt

Ruth Baker Pratt

Ruth Sears Baker Pratt (born August 24, 1877 in Ware , Massachusetts , † August 23, 1965 in Glen Cove , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1929 and 1933 she represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ruth Sears Baker Pratt attended private schools and Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She moved in 1894 to Greenwich ( Connecticut ) and from there in 1904 to New York City . In 1925 she was on the Board of Aldermen in New York City. She was the first woman to hold this post. In 1927 she was re-elected. She held the position until March 1, 1929. Politically she belonged to the Republican Party . Between 1929 and 1943 she was a member of the Republican National Committee . As a delegate, she participated in the Republican National Conventions in 1924, 1932, 1936 and 1940 , and in the Republican State Conventions in 1922, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1936 and 1938 . Between 1943 and 1946 she was president of the Woman's National Republican Club .

In the 1928 congressional elections for the 71st Congress , Pratt was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 17th electoral district of New York , where she succeeded William W. Cohen on March 4, 1929 . She was re-elected once. In 1930 they suffered a defeat in her re-election bid and was eliminated from the after 3 March 1933 Congress of.

After her time at Congress, she lived in New York City. She died on August 23, 1965, at The Manor House in Glen Cove. Her body was buried in the Pratt mausoleum .

family

She married John Teele Pratt , a corporate attorney , philanthropist, music impresario, and financier. The couple had five children together:

• John Teele Pratt junior;
• Virginia Pratt (1905–1979), who married Robert H. Thayer ;
• Phyllis Pratt (1912–1987), who married Paul Henry Nitze ;
• Edwin H Baker Pratt (1913–1975), whose son is the songwriter Andy Pratt and
• Sally Pratt, who married James Jackson.

literature

• National Affairs: Phelps-Pratt , Time, September 17, 1928

Web links

• Ruth Baker Pratt in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Ruth Baker Pratt in the database of Find a Grave (English)