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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MontanaCharles Nelson PRAY
(1868-1963)
PRAY, Charles Nelson, a
Representative from Montana; born in Potsdam, St. Lawrence County,
N.Y., April 6, 1868; attended the public schools in Salisbury and
Middlebury, Vt.; graduate of the Middlebury High School; attended
Middlebury (Vt.) College 1886-1888 and was graduated from the
Chicago College of Law; was admitted to the bar in 1892 and
commenced practice at Fort Benton, Mont., in 1896; served as
assistant prosecuting attorney of Chouteau County in 1897 and 1898;
elected prosecuting attorney in 1898 and reelected in 1900, 1902,
and 1904; elected as a Republican to the Sixtieth, Sixty-first, and
Sixty-second Congresses (March 4, 1907-March 3, 1913); unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1912 to the Sixty-third Congress;
resumed the practice of law in Great Falls, Cascade County, Mont.,
January 1, 1914; unsuccessful candidate for election to the United
States Senate in 1916; appointed judge of the United States
District Court of Montana on January 21, 1924, in which capacity he
served until his retirement in 1957; died in Great Falls, Mont.,
September 12, 1963; interment in Hillcrest Lawn Memorial
Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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