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and won in a 1986 special election. Upon his election in 1986, Pratt was appointed to the
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Pratt ran for an aldermanic seat in 1984, a tense time for race relations in the city. During this year, there was a racial divide over whether or not to rename what was then known as North 3rd Street to Dr. Martin Luther King Drive. Despite his loss to Roy B. Nabors in 1984, he ran for the same seat
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stepped down in 2004 three months before his term expired, Pratt became acting mayor. He was the first
African-American to act as mayor of Milwaukee. Pratt ran in a primary election for the mayoral seat and finished first from a field of thirteen candidates during the primary. He lost his bid to
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In 2000, Pratt was elected the president of the Common
Council: "...he was motivated to run after seeing so many vacant boarded up houses never changing in Milwaukee neighborhoods. The city was divided and the city workforce and federal departments didn't represent Milwaukee's population."
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and was honorably discharged in the mid 60s. When he returned to
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Executive Scott Walker, who was elected governor of
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