Anning Smith Prall was a representative

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 from New York

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, born in Port Richmond, Staten Island

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Prall was born in In his early years Prall was employed as a clerk in a New York newspaper

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 office. Prall attended New York University

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, studying business. From 1908 until 1918 he was in charge of a real estate

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 department of a bank

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. Prall was appointed a member of the New York City Board of Education

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 on January 1, 1918, and served until December 31, 1921. He elected its president, commissioner of taxes and assessment three times in 1922 and 1923.

He was a delegate

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 to the Democratic National Convention

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 in 1924 and was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel J. Riordan

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; reelected to the sixty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from November 6, 1923 to January 3, 1935; was not a candidate for renomination in 1934. Prall served as a member and chairman of the Federal Communications Commission

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 from January 15, 1935 until his death in 1937 at his summer home in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. He is interred at Moravian Cemetery

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 in New Dorp, Staten Island.

Intermediate school

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 (I.S.) 27 on Staten Island is also known as the Anning S. Prall School.