Henry Otis Pratt

Henry Otis Pratt ( born February 11, 1838 in Foxcroft, Piscataquis County, Maine, † May 22, 1931 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1877 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Pratt attended the public schools of his home including Foxcroft Academy. After a subsequent study of law at Harvard University, he was admitted in 1862 as a lawyer. In 1862 he moved to Charles City, Iowa, where he worked as a teacher. In the years 1862 and 1863, he served during the Civil War as a soldier in the army of the Union. Since 1864 Pratt practiced in Charles City as a lawyer. In the years 1868 and 1869 he was also in Floyd County Board of Education.

Henry Pratt was a member of the Republican Party. From 1870 to 1872 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Iowa. In the congressional elections of 1872 he was in the fourth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Madison Miner Walden on March 4, 1873. After a re-election in 1874 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1877 two legislative sessions. In 1876 he opted not to run again. 1877 Pratt was president of the local Republican party convention in Iowa.

After Henry Pratt studied theology. He was ordained in October 1877 ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Until 1918, he held this office. Then he withdrew into retirement. He died in May 1931 aged 93 years.