[11] Together with Reed Smoot, she introduced the Pratt-Smoot Act, passed by the United States Congress, and signed into law by President Herbert Hoover on March 3, 1931.

The program, which is known as Books for the Blind, has been heavily amended and expanded over the years, and remains in place today.

[12] In 1904,[16] she married John Teele Pratt, a corporate attorney, philanthropist, music impresario, and financier.

Through her eldest son John, she was a grandmother of Mary Christy Pratt (1923–1960), who was married to Bayard Cutting Auchincloss (1922–2001), the nephew of U.S. Representative James C. Auchincloss, in 1950,[21][36] and Ruth Pratt, who in 1962 married U.S. State Department aide, R. Campbell James, a Groton and Yale graduate who was a stepson of architect Harrie T.

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