Pratt C. Remmel
| Pratt C. Remmel | |
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| Mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas | |
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In office 1951–1955 |
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| Preceded by | Sam M. Wassell |
| Succeeded by | Woodrow Wilson Mann |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Pratt Cates Remmel October 26, 1915 Little Rock, Pulaski County Arkansas, USA |
| Died | May 14, 1991 (aged 75) Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Resting place | Oakland Cemetery in Little Rock |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Catherine Couch Remmel |
| Relations | Harvey Couch (father-in-law) |
| Children |
Catherine R. "Cathie" Matthews |
| Residence | Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Alma mater | University of Virginia |
| Occupation | Insurance agent |
Catherine R. "Cathie" Matthews
Pratt Remmel, Jr.
Pratt Cates Remmel, Sr. (October 26, 1915 – May 14, 1991), was the only 20th century Republican elected on a partisan ballot to have served as mayor of Little Rock, Arkansas. He was elected to the first of two two-year terms in 1951, was reelected in 1953, and then defeated in 1955 by the Democrat Woodrow Wilson Mann, who like Remmel was in the insurance business. In 1954, Remmel was the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate against the Democrat Orval Eugene Faubus, who won the first of his six consecutive two-year terms as the state's highest constitutional officer. Remmel's 47 percent of the general election vote was the greatest then attained by a Republican candidate since Reconstruction. In some ways, he paved the beginning of a long route that would bring fellow Republican Winthrop Rockefeller to the governorship in 1967. Rockefeller moved into the state only a year before Remmel ran for governor.
Remmel was born in Little Rock to former Arkansas Republican state chairman Augustus Caleb "Gus" Remmel (1882–1920) and the former Ellen Lucy "Nell" Cates (1888–1961), who was the Arkansas Republican national committeewoman, a position equivalent to membership on the Republican National Committee, having served from 1928 until 1957. Remmel's father died when he was five, and his mother reared her children without a husband. One of Remmel's great-uncles, Harmon Liveright Remmel (1852–1927, usually known as H. L. Remmel), served as Republican state chairman from 1900 to 1925 and GOP national committeeman in 1924 and ran unsuccessfully for Arkansas governor in 1894, 1896, and 1900 and for the United States Senate in 1916.
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