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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—IndianaDaniel Darwin PRATT
(1813-1877)
Senate Years of Service:
1869-1875Party: RepublicanPRATT, Daniel Darwin, a
Senator from Indiana; born in Palermo, Maine, October 26, 1813;
moved to New York with his parents, who settled in Fenner, Madison
County; attended the public schools and Cazenovia Seminary;
graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1831; moved to
Indiana in 1832 and taught school; settled in Indianapolis in 1834
and was employed in the office of the secretary of State; studied
law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Logansport,
Ind., in 1836; member, State house of representatives in 1851,
1853; elected in 1868 as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress
but resigned January 27, 1869, before the beginning of the
congressional term, having been elected to the United States
Senate; served as a Republican in the Senate from March 4, 1869, to
March 3, 1875; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Forty-second and
Forty-third Congresses); appointed by President Ulysses Grant as
Commissioner of Internal Revenue 1875-1876; died in Logansport,
Cass County, Ind., June 17, 1877; interment in Mount Hope
Cemetery.
Bibliography
Holliday, Joseph E. “Daniel D. Pratt: Lawyer and
Legislator.” Indiana Magazine of History 57 (June
1961): 99-126; Holliday, Joseph E. “Daniel D. Pratt: Senator
and Commissioner.” Indiana History 58 (March 1962):
17-51.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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