Daniel D. Pratt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American politician
Date of Birth: 26-Oct-1813
Place of Birth: Palermo, Maine, United States
Date of Death: 17-Jun-1877
Profession: lawyer, politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Daniel D. Pratt
- Daniel Darwin Pratt (October 26, 1813 – June 17, 1877) was a United States Senator from Indiana.
- Born in Palermo, Maine, he moved to New York with his parents, who settled in Fenner.
- He attended the public schools and Cazenovia Seminary, and graduated from Hamilton College in 1831.
- He moved to Indiana in 1832 and taught school; in 1834, he settled in Indianapolis and was employed in the office of the Secretary of State.
- He studied law and was admitted to the bar, commencing practice in Logansport in 1836. In 1851 and 1853, he was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives and was elected in 1868 as a Republican to the Forty-first Congress, but resigned on January 27, 1869, before the beginning of his term as a U.S.
- Representative, having been elected to the U.S.
- Senate at the beginning of the month.
- He was a member of the Senate from March 4, 1869, to March 3, 1875; while in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Pensions (Forty-second and Forty-third Congresses). Pratt was appointed by President Ulysses S.
- Grant as Commissioner of Internal Revenue, holding that office in 1875 and 1876.
- He died in Logansport in 1877; interment was in Mount Hope Cemetery.
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