Daniel D. Pratt

Daniel Darwin Pratt ( born October 26, 1813 in Palermo, Waldo County, Massachusetts, † June 17, 1877 in Logansport, Indiana ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. Senate.

Born in present-day Maine Daniel Pratt moved with his parents early on in the state of New York, where the family settled in Fenner. He attended the public schools and a seminary school in Cazenovia, before he took his degree in 1831 from Hamilton College in Clinton. In 1832 he moved to Indiana, where he worked as a teacher. From 1834 he lived in Indianapolis and was employed there in the authority of the Secretary of State. Finally, he studied the law, joined the Bar and began to practice in Logansport.

In the years 1851 and 1853 Pratt was, respectively, as a Member of the House of Representatives from Indiana. In 1868 he was elected to the House of Representatives of the 44th Congress; However, before he took this office, he resigned from his position already down again, because in the meantime his choice was made ​​in the Senate. He remained there on 4 March 1869 to 3 March 1875. During this time, he served as Chairman of the Pension Committee.

U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Pratt then head of the Federal Tax Authority ( Commissioner of Internal Revenue ). This office he held until 1876. The following year he died in Logansport.

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