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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 37 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. ==Family, education, military== 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.〔''Arkansas Gazette'', December 4, 1920; March 8, 1961; ''New York Times'', October 15, 1927; http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/reily-remsen.html#RY7155VBJ〕 Remmel graduated from high school in Little Rock in 1933. In 1937, he received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.〔Bessie Butler Allard, ed. ''Who Is Who in Arkansas, Vol. I (Little Rock, 1959), pp. 199-200; ''Who's Who in the South and Southwest'' (Chicago, 1952), p. 603〕 During World War II, Remmel was a United States Navy lieutenant, a pilot, and flight instructor.〔(Arkansas River Hall of Fame )〕 Remmel married the former Catherine Couch (April 22, 1918 - January 24, 2006), the daughter of Harvey C. Couch of Pine Bluff, the founder of Arkansas Power & Light (a subsidiary of Entergy) and the director the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. Lake Catherine near Hot Springs, the seat of Garland County, is named for Catherine Couch Remmel.〔 Remmel spent decades trying to build the Arkansas Republican Party. In 1940, he became chairman of the Pulaski County (Little Rock) Republican Executive Committee. Thereafter, at various times he was treasurer of the Republican State Central Committee, finance director of the Arkansas Republican Party (1949–1951), chairman of the Young Republicans of Arkansas and vice chairman of the Young Republican National Federation. Remmel attended the national Republican conventions as a delegate in 1952 and 1956 and as an alternate in 1948 and 1960.〔Bessie Butler Allard, ed. ''Who Is Who in Arkansas, Vol. I (Little Rock, 1959), pp. 199-200; ''Who's Who in the South and Southwest'' (chicago, 1952), p. 603〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pratt C. Remmel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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