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James T. Pratt

American politician

Summary

American politician

Field	Value
image	James T. Pratt (Connecticut Congressman) (3x4a).jpg
state	Connecticut
district	1st
term_start	March 4, 1853
term_end	March 3, 1855
predecessor	Charles Chapman
successor	Ezra Clark Jr.
office1	President pro tempore of the Connecticut Senate
term1	1852
predecessor1	Henry E. Peck
successor1	Daniel B. Warner
office2	Member of the Connecticut Senate
term2	1852
office3	Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives
term3	1870–1871
1862
1857
1850
1847–1848
office4	Connecticut Adjutant General
term_start4	1846
term_end4	1847
predecessor4	Charles T. Hillyer
successor4	George P. Shelton
birth_date	December 14, 1802
birth_place	Cromwell, Connecticut
death_date
death_place	Wethersfield, Connecticut
resting_place	Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut

1862 1857 1850 1847–1848

James Timothy Pratt (December 14, 1802 – April 11, 1887) was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.

Born in Cromwell, Connecticut, Pratt attended the common schools. He engaged in mercantile and agricultural pursuits in Hartford, Connecticut.

Enlisted in the "Horse Guard" in 1820. He served as mayor 1826–29. Pratt was elected major of the First Regiment of Cavalry in 1834. He served as colonel in 1836, brigadier general 1837–39 and a major general 1839–46.

Pratt then served as adjutant general in 1846, retiring from mercantile pursuits and settled in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.

He served as member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1847, 1848, and 1850. The a member of the Connecticut Senate in 1852. He served as President pro tempore of the Connecticut Senate.

He was again a member of the State house of representatives in 1857 and 1862.

Pratt was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855).

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress. Pratt was an unsuccessful candidate for election as governor in 1858 and 1859.

Pratt served as member of the peace convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise means to prevent the impending war.

During the American Civil War, Pratt was a War Democrat.

Pratt was again a member of the State house of representatives in 1870 and 1871.

He engaged in agricultural pursuits.

Pratt died in Wethersfield, Connecticut, April 11, 1887, and was interred in Indian Hill Cemetery, Middletown, Connecticut.

References

"PRATT, James Timothy". congress.gov.
(1981). "United States Senator James Dixon: 1814-1873 Episcopalian Anti-Slavery Statesman". Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church.

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