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Queens University of Charlotte.
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Eliza Pratt
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Career
A native of Anson County, North Carolina, Pratt worked as a newspaper editor in Troy, North Carolina, before being hired as a secretary for Congressman Robert L. Doughton in 1924. She then served Doughton and his successors in North Carolina"s 8th congressional district for the next twenty-two years: J. Walter Lambeth and William O. Burgin. When Burgin died in office in 1946, Pratt was elected as a Democrat to fill the vacancy.
She served from May 25, 1946, to January 3, 1947, and was not a candidate in the 1946 general election.
Pratt went on to a variety of federal government jobs and again became a secretary for a member of Congress, Alvin Paul Kitchin, from 1957 through 1962. Number woman would be elected again to Congress from North Carolina until Eva M. Clayton was elected in 1992.
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