Background
He was born in Brooklyn New York, the son of Standard Oil magnate Charles Pratt and Mary Helen Richardson.
He was born in Brooklyn New York, the son of Standard Oil magnate Charles Pratt and Mary Helen Richardson.
He graduated from Amherst College in 1887.
Because Charles Pratt Snr. died so soon after the college was founded, Frederic Pratt is ascribed with guiding the college through its early decades. In 1910, he succeeded Caspar Whitney as president of the American Olympic Committee, now the United States Olympic Committee, but only served for five weeks, prior to Colonel Robert Means Thompson.
