Samuel Pratt

Samuel Pratt (October 6, 1807 – March 24, 1877) was an American farmer, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.

In his eighth year his parents removed to Geauga County, Ohio ; then in 1829, they moved to White Pigeon, Michigan.

Due to the lack of schools in the frontier regions where his family had lived, he received only a limited education.

He was first elected to a one-year term as a member of the Assembly from Walworth County's 1st Assembly district (Troy, East Troy, and Spring Prairie in 1848 as a Free Soiler to succeed Democrat Gaylord Graves; he was succeeded by Whig Alexander O. Babcock.

As a Republican he was elected once more in 1854 for a new district (it was during this term of office that he was one of those who harbored fugitive slave Joshua Glover until he could be safely sent to Canada[2]); and again in 1863 for the redrawn 1st Assembly district (succeeding Democrat Hollis Latham); he was succeeded in turn by Lucius Allen of the National Union Party.