John Teele Pratt
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John Teele Pratt (25 December 1873 - 17 Jun 1927) was an American corporate attorney, philanthropist, music impresario, and financier.
Pratt was born in Brooklyn, New York, on 25 December 1873, the son of Standard Oil industrialist Charles Pratt and Mary Helen Richardson. After graduating from Amherst College in 1896, he studied at Harvard Law School, graduating in 1900. He worked as a lawyer for the prestigious firm of Carter and Ledyard at 54 Wall Street in New York.
His family house and estate, Manor House, at Glen Cove, Long Island, is now the Harrison Conference Center.
He married Ruth Sears Baker who, in 1929, became the first woman elected to the United States Congress from the State of New York.
Pratt died suddenly in his Broadway office on 17 Jun 1927, aged 51, of heart disease. Thirty-six years earlier, his father, Charles Pratt, died of heart disease in offices at the same address.
John Teele and Ruth Sears Baker Pratt had five children:
- John Teele Pratt Jr;
- Virginia Pratt (1905-1979), who married Robert H. Thayer;
- Phyllis Pratt (1912–1975) who married Paul Henry Nitze;
- Edwin H Baker Pratt (1913-1987), headmaster of the private Browne & Nichols, now Buckingham Browne & Nichols school; and
- Sally Pratt
