page_title: John Teele Pratt
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: John Teele Pratt / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Former Congresswoman Ruth Baker Pratt of New York.
context_page_description: John Teele Pratt was an American corporate attorney, philanthropist, music impresario, and financier.
context_section_description: In 1904, Pratt was married to Ruth Sears Baker (1877–1965), a Wellesley College graduate and the daughter of Edwin K. Baker, a Massachusetts dry-goods merchant.  In 1929, two years after his eventual death in 1927, Ruth became the first woman elected to the United States Congress from the State of New York.  Together, they were the parents of five children:
  John Teele Pratt Jr. (1903–1969), who was married to Mary Christy Tiffany (1905–1980), the daughter of George Shepley Tiffany.  They divorced and he later married Elizabeth Ogden Woodward (1907–1986), the daughter of William Woodward Sr. and the former wife of Robert Livingston Stevens Jr. After his death, she married Alexander Cochrane Cushing, founder of Squaw Valley Ski Resort.
  Virginia Pratt (1905–1979), who married Robert Helyer Thayer (1901−1984), a U.S. Minister to Romania, in 1926.
  Sally Sears Pratt (1908–1973), who married James Tracy Jackson III (1905–1986) in 1928.
  Phyllis Pratt (1912–1987), who married Paul Henry Nitze (1907–2004), the Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Secretary of Defense under President Lyndon B. Johnson.
  Edwin Howard Baker Pratt (1913–1975), the headmaster of Browne & Nichols school, who married Aileen Kelly.
  Pratt died suddenly in his Broadway office on June 17, 1927, aged 53, of heart disease. Thirty six years earlier, his father, Charles Pratt, had died of heart disease in offices at the same address.
caption: Pratt's wife, U.S. Representative from New York, Ruth Baker Pratt, c. 1933
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