When Richard "Dickey" Pratt was born in 1869, in Butler, Butler Township, Branch, Michigan, United States, his father, James Leroy Pratt, was 25 and his mother, Chloe Ann Bundy, was 23. He lived in Campbell Township, Greene, Missouri, United States for about 10 years. He died on 29 December 1939, in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States, at the age of 70, and was buried in Springfield, Greene, Missouri, United States.
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Prohibits the federal government and each state from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's race, color, or previous condition of servitude. It was the last of the Reconstruction Amendments.
The Act was an extension of the Fifteenth Amendment, that prohibited discrimination by state offices in voter registration. It also helped empower the President with the authority to enforce the first section of the Fifteenth Amendment throughout the United States. Being the first of three Enforcement Acts passed by the Congress, it helped combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans.
This Act tried to prevent the raising of prices by restricting trade. The purpose of the Act was to preserve a competitive marketplace to protect consumers from abuse.
English: nickname for a clever trickster, from Middle English prat(te), pret ‘cunning, wily, astute’ (a derivative of Old English præt, pret ‘trickery, deception’, which is found in use as a byname in the 11th century). This surname is quite common in southeastern Ireland.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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