The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1869-01-26
Hon. n. n. Pratt.

occupied the OF Tue peOpic
OF the State, as we'll as the members
of the Legislature, for the past two
weeks, was happily terminated yester-
day, by the nomination of the Hon.
Daniel D. Pratt, of LOgansport, as the
successor of Hon. Thomas A. Hem
bricks, in the Senate Of the United
States, for six years from the fourth
day of March next. The vote stood
SO for Pratt to 90 for Hendricks.
Mr.. Pratt was born In Cazenoria,
Madison County, New York, in 1914,
aud is now in the ffty-sixth year of
his age. He graduated at Hamilton
College, New York, in 1881, at the
early age of seventeen, with the high
est honors of his class. He raj an
earnest and laborious student-pover-
ty squirting him to almost superhu-
man exertion to make the most of his
only opportunity.
In the Spring of 1882, afoot and
alone, he started for the great West,
to begin the struggle and battle of life
among strangers, with no capital but
his education, backed by great energy
and perseverance, and with scarcely
funds enough to defray his expenses.
He reached Cincinnati in April,
where he entered into an engagement
as teacher in a common school at
Lawrenceburg, Dearborn County, In
this State, which he retained until the
Spring of 1888, when he was elected
Principal of the Seminary at Rising
Sun, Ohio County-then one of the
most Furnishing institutions of learn
ing In the southeastern part of the
State. Having determined upon the
law for his profession he came to In
~dianapolis in 1924 and began his legal
studies in the Office of Messrs. Flether
AZ Butler, hen among the leading
members of the bar In the State, and
remained with them until 1886, when,
having been admitted to practice in
the various Courts of the State, he
located at Logansport, Cass County,
where he has devoted himself almost
exclusively to the practice of his pro-
fession in that and the adjoining Ju-
dicial Districts, up the the present,
with great credit to himself and honor
to the profession.
La 1917 he was nominated by the
Wing party of the Ninth District as
their candidate for Congress, but the
DloAElCL. do VIGIL 1S NnG OtdACs OCAu5 dt
that time Democratic, he was defeated
by a small majority.
In 1851, and again In 1853, he was
a member of the lower branch of the
General Assembly of Indiana, and
was an active and earnest member,
taking a laborious part in its pro-
ceedings, and ~exerting great influence
in the important legislation of thai
period.
In 1856, he was q candidate for
District Elector on the Republican
ticket, and has since the organization
of the party been an ardent and zeal
supporter of it's principles.
In 1860, he was selected as a dele
gate for the State at large, to the Ma
tional Republican Convention al
Chicago. Being a man of large and
prepossessing appearance, with voice
In proportion to his mental as we'll as
physical proportions, he was selected
as Reading Clerk, and will be vel
remembered by the many thousand:
who assembled at that great and i'm.
portaRt convention.
In 1863, he was put In nomination
and supported by the Republican
minority of that ever-memorable SEES
sion of the General Assembly as theil
candidate for the United States Sen.
ate, but as the Legislature was largely
Democratic, there was no hope o.
success.
In 1868, he was nominated for Con.
gress in the Eighth Congressiona
District, and abandoning all else
devoted his whole energy and powel
to the canvass, and by his eloquenct
and convincing argument, added M
little to the success of the Republican
party.
In his profession he sustains a mos
enviable reputation-as a jurist he il
stands deservedly high. A finished
scholar, of great and refined menta
culture; with a genial disposition, Ia
termingled with a never-failing funC
of humor, wit and sentiment com
bined, he is the life of the circle 0
his professional friends and neigh
bors. Upright in his character, gen
tlemanly in his department. generous
and sympathetic In his disposition
transformations In manner, modes
and retiring to a fault, strictly exem
plary in his deportment-in short
possessing all the qualities which
should ever characterize a great anC
good man. He will fill the high ant
honorable position to which he ha.
been chosen, with honor to himsel
and credit to the State and the part.
which has chosen him, without ever
soliciting his consent.
With two such Senators as Oliver
p. Morton and Daniel d. Pratt In the
Senate of the United States, indiana
will be second in point of ability ant
influence to no other State.
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