Ruth Baker Pratt

Ruth Sears Baker Pratt ( born August 24, 1877 in Ware, Massachusetts, † August 23, 1965 in Glen Cove, New York) was an American politician. Between 1929 and 1933, she represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ruth Sears Baker Pratt attended private schools and Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She moved in 1894 to Greenwich (Connecticut), and from there in 1904 to New York City. In 1925, she sat on the Board of Aldermen of New York City. She was the first woman to in this post. In 1927 she was re-elected. She held the position he held until March 1, 1929. Politically, it was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1929 and 1943 she was a member of the Republican National Committee. As delegates took her in the years 1924, 1932, 1936 and 1940 to the Republican National Conventions in part and in the years 1922, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930, 1936 and 1938 to the Republican State Convention. Between 1943 and 1946 she was president of the Woman's National Republican Club.

In the congressional elections of 1928 for the 71st Congress Pratt was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they became the successor of William W. Cohen on March 4, 1929. She was re-elected once. In 1930 she suffered in her re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1933 the Congress of.

After their conference time she lived in New York City. On August 23, 1965, she died at her home The Manor House in Glen Cove. Her body was buried in Pratt Mausoleum.

Family

She married John Teele Pratt, a corporate attorney, philanthropist and financier Musikimpresario. The couple had five children together:

  • John Teele Pratt Jr.;
  • Virginia Pratt (1905-1979), who married Robert H. Thayer;
  • Phyllis Pratt (1912-1987), who married Paul Henry Nitze;
  • Edwin H Baker Pratt (1913-1975), is the son of singer-songwriter Andy Pratt and
  • Sally Pratt, who married James Jackson.
698430
de