Charles Clarence Pratt

Charles Clarence Pratt ( born April 23, 1854 in New Milford, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, † January 27, 1916 in Binghamton, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1909 and 1911 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Pratt attended the public schools of his home and then the Sedgwick Institute in Massachusetts and the Pennsylvania State Normal School in Bloomsburg. Since 1879 he has worked in New Milford in the oil industry and in the lumber business. In his home, he held several local offices. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. Between 1899 and 1907 he was on the staff of the governor of Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1908 Pratt was in the 14th electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats George Washington Kipp on March 4, 1909. Since he has not been confirmed in 1910, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1911. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Pratt took his previous activities on again. He lived alternately in New Milford and Binghamton, where he died on 27 January 1916 and was buried in New Milford.