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Pratt, Daniel Darwin

lawyer, state legislator, congressman, United States senator, was born Oct. 26, 1813, in Palermo, Maine. In 1851 and 1853 he was elected to the Indiana state legislature; and was a delegate to the Chicago convention of 1860, officiating as leading secretary. In 1868 he was elected a representative from Indiana to the forty-first congress; and in 1869 was elected a senator in congress for the term ending in 1875. In 1875 he was appointed commissioner of internal revenue. He died June 17, 1877, in Logansport, Ind.