A. Miles Pratt

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A. Miles Pratt
50th Mayor (acting) of New Orleans, Louisiana
In office June 30, 1936 – July 15, 1936
Preceded by	T. Semmes Walmsley
Succeeded by	Fred A. Earhart (acting)
Born

Albert Miles Pratt was briefly acting mayor of New Orleans from June 30 to July 15, 1936.

Pratt was New Orleans’s Commissioner of Public Finance for two terms in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1936 he was appointed collector of customs for the Port of New Orleans. Along with Fred A. Earhart and Jesse S. Cave, Pratt was one of three acting mayors who served in the summer of 1936 between the resignation of Mayor T. Semmes Walmsley and the accession of Robert Maestri.

Preceded by T. Semmes Walmsley

Mayor of New Orleans 1936

Succeeded by Fred A. Earhart (acting mayor)

[edit] Sources

• Gill, Donald A. Stories Behind New Orleans Street Names. Bonus Books, 1992.

Mayors of New Orleans, Louisiana

de Boré • Pitot • Watkins • Mather • Trudeau • Girod • Dorgenois • Girod • Macarty • de Roffignac • Prieur • Bertus • Genois • Freret • Prieur • Bertus • Freret • Montegut • Crossman • Lewis • Waterman • Stith • Monroe • Shepley • Weitzel • French • Weitzel • Deming • Miller • Durell • Miller • Hoyt • Kennedy • Quincy • Burke • Kennedy • Rozier • Clark • Monroe • Heath • Conway • Flanders • Wiltz • Leeds • Pilsbury • Watton • Shakspeare • Behan • Guillotte • Shakspeare • Fitzpatrick • Flower • Capdevielle • Behrman • McShane • Behrman • O'Keefe • Walmsley • Pratt • Earhart • Cave • Maestri • Morrison • Schiro • Landrieu • E. Morial • Barthelemy • M. Morial • Nagin