{{Short description|American businessman and politician (1852–1911)}} {{Infobox officeholder |name = Le Gage Pratt |image = Le Gage Pratt (New Jersey Congressman).jpg |caption = From the March 15, 1911 edition of ''The Insurance Press'' magazine |state = New Jersey |district = {{ushr|New Jersey|8|8th}} |term_start = March 4, 1907 |term_end = March 3, 1909 |predecessor = William H. Wiley |successor = William H. Wiley |birth_name = |birth_date = {{Birth date|1852|12|14}} |birth_place = Sterling, Massachusetts, US |death_date = {{Death date and age|1911|3|9|1852|12|14}} |death_place = Newark, New Jersey, US |party = Democratic }}

'''Le Gage Pratt''' (December 14, 1852 – March 9, 1911) was an American businessman and politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New Jersey for one term from 1907 to 1909.

==Early life and career== Born in Sterling, Massachusetts, Pratt was educated in the common schools. <!-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->In 1869, he began a commercial career in Boston. He subsequently moved with his parents to Chicago, Illinois, where he engaged in newspaper work in Chicago 1884–1886. He was employed for several years in the life insurance business in Texas. He was subsequently transferred to Illinois and Nebraska and continued in that business. <!-- A grammar fix may be needed here. -->

In 1897, he tendered his resignation and moved to East Orange, New Jersey, where in 1903 he accepted a position with the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company at Newark, New Jersey. He was named company vice president, an office he held until elected to Congress.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Personal|journal=The Weekly Underwriter|date=August 31, 1907|volume=77|page=153|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-yZmBhgU14QC|access-date=25 October 2016|last1=Brigham|first1=Alasco Delancey|last2=Hayden|first2=Henry Rogers}}</ref>

==Congress== Pratt was elected as a Democrat to the Sixtieth Congress (March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1909). While in office, he investigated allegations of kickbacks during the construction of the Panama Canal. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1908 to the Sixty-first Congress. He resumed the insurance business and became connected with the Puritan Life Insurance Co., of Providence, Rhode Island.

==Death== He died in Newark, New Jersey, March 9, 1911. He was interred in Fairmount Cemetery in Newark.

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