Horace Griggs Prall was a New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

 attorney and Republican

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 politician. He served a number of a years as a state legislator and a short term as Acting Governor of the state in 1935.

Prall was born near Ringoes, New Jersey

Ringoes, New Jersey

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. He attended Harvard University

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 (1906) and New York University School of Law

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 (LL.B. 1908). After almost two decades of practicing law, Prall was elected to the legislature, first to the Assembly

New Jersey General Assembly

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 (1927–28), then to the State Senate

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 (1928–36), serving as president of that body in his last two years of tenure. After the resignation of Governor A. Harry Moore

A. Harry Moore

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, Prall served as Acting Governor for a brief period (January 3, 1935 - January 15, 1935). After completing his last term as a Senator, Prall became a judge on the Court of Common Pleas. He died April 23, 1951 in Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton, New Jersey

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Sources

• Biography from the National Governors Association
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