Daniel Pratt (1806

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– July 23, 1884

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) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

He worked on his father's farm and from age 18 and taught district school. He then entered

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Academy, and graduated from

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in 1835. Afterwards he taught school again in

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and studied law there with D. D. Hills. He was admitted to the bar in 1836 and opened a law office with Hills in Syracuse. In 1843, he was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Onondaga County, a post he held until he was legislated out of office in July 1847. He was a justice of the

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from 1847 to 1858, and

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a judge of the

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in 1850 and 1858. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law in partnership with D. J. Mitchell and Wilber M. Brown in Syracuse. As a

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he was

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from 1874 to 1875. The Onondaga Historical Association Museum in Syracuse has a portrait of his son George Comstock Pratt (1842–1853). His widow Augusta J. Pratt was one of the heirs to the $100,000,000 worth Townley English estate in 1885.
The heirs of the Townley English estate, in NYT on March 13, 1885

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His obit, in NYT on July 24, 1884 {{DEFAULTSORT:Pratt, Daniel 1806 births 1884 deaths Politicians from Syracuse, New York New York State Attorneys General Union College (New York) alumni New York Supreme Court Justices Judges of the New York Court of Appeals Lawyers from Syracuse, New York 19th-century American judges 19th-century American lawyers