James T. Pratt

James T. Pratt

James Timothy Pratt (born December 14, 1802 in Cromwell , Connecticut , †  April 11, 1887 in Wethersfield , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1853 and 1855 he represented the first constituency of the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Pratt attended public schools in his home country. He then worked in Hartford in trade and agriculture. From 1820 he was also a member of the cavalry within the Connecticut Militia . He rose to major general by 1846. Then, also in 1846, he was Adjutant General on the command staff of this military unit. Between 1826 and 1829 he was Mayor of Hartford. In 1846 Pratt moved to Rocky Hill .

Politically, Pratt was a member of the Democratic Party . He was elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1847, 1848, and 1850 . In 1852 he was also a member of the State Senate . In the congressional election of 1852, he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first district of Connecticut . There he took over from Charles Chapman of the Whig Party on March 4, 1853 . But since he lost to Ezra Clark in the following elections in 1854 , he was only able to complete one term in Congress until March 3, 1855 .

In 1857 and 1862, Pratt was re-elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives. In 1858 and 1859, two candidacies for the office of governor failed . In the spring of 1861 he was a member of a peace conference in Washington that unsuccessfully tried to prevent the outbreak of civil war . In the following years James Pratt worked again in agriculture. From 1870 to 1871 he was once again a member of the state parliament. He died in Wethersfield in April 1887 and was buried in Middletown .

Web links

• James T. Pratt in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James T. Pratt in the database of Find a Grave (English)