Eliza Jane Pratt (March 5 1902 – May 13 1981) was a U.S. Representative from North Carolina the first woman to represent her state in the U.S. Congress.A native of Anson County North Carolina Pratt worked as a newspaper editor in Troy North Carolina before being hired as a secretary for Congressman Robert L. Doughton in 1924. She then served Doughton and his successors in North Carolina’s 8th congressional district for the next twenty-two years: J. Walter Lambeth and William O. Burgin.
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