Henry Conger Pratt

Henry Conger Pratt , professionally known as H. Conger Pratt, was a Major General in the United States Army, most of whose career was spent as an officer and pilot in the Army antecedents of the United States Air Force. In the 1930s he became one of the senior leaders of the Air Corps and was nearly chosen to become Chief of Air Corps in 1935. Pratt was the first member in its history to be appointed to the permanent establishment rank of brigadier general of the line.

Conger Pratt was born on September 2, 1882 at Fort Stanton, New Mexico, the son of Captain Henry Clitz Pratt of the 13th Infantry, a veteran officer whose career had begun in 1862 as a lieutenant in the New York Volunteers during the American Civil War. Captain Pratt died in March 1887 when his son was just four years old. Conger Pratt was also the grandson of Colonel Henry Clay Pratt , West Point Class of 1837, who had been cited for gallantry during the MexicanAmerican War and served 42 years in the Army.

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