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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyLe Gage PRATT
(1852-1911)
PRATT, Le Gage, a
Representative from New Jersey; born in Sterling, Worcester County,
Mass., December 14, 1852; educated in the common schools; in 1869
entered upon a commercial career in Boston; subsequently moved with
his parents to Chicago, Ill.; engaged in newspaper work in Chicago
1884-1886; was employed for several years in the life-insurance
business in Texas; was subsequently transferred to Illinois and
Minnesota and continued in this business; in 1897 tendered his
resignation and moved to East Orange, N.J., and in 1903 accepted a
position with an insurance company at Newark, N.J., being elected
vice president, which office he held until elected to Congress;
elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907-March
3, 1909); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the
Sixty-first Congress; resumed the insurance business and became
connected with the Puritan Life Insurance Co., of Providence, R.I.;
died in Newark, N.J., March 9, 1911; interment in Fairmount
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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