Introduction
Pratt Cates Remmel, Sr. (October 26, 1915 – May 14, 1991), was an American politician from Arkansas.
He was the only 20th century Republican elected on a partisan ballot to have served as mayor of the capital city 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 engaged in the insurance business.
Early life and education
Remmel was born on October 26, 1915, in Little Rock, Arkansas, 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.
He was raised by his mother after his father died when he was five.
Remmel graduated from Little Rock High School in 1933. In 1937, he earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, Virginia.