Anning Smith Prall, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American congressman for New York
Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1870
Place of Birth: Port Richmond, New York, United States
Date of Death: 23-Jul-1937
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Anning Smith Prall
- Anning Smith Prall (September 17, 1870 – July 23, 1937) was a Representative from New York, born in Port Richmond, Staten Island. In his early years Prall was employed as a clerk in a New York newspaper office.
- Prall attended New York University, studying business.
- From 1908 until 1918 he was in charge of a real estate department of a bank, while serving as the first president of the Staten Island Board of Realtors from 1915 to 1916. In 1918 Prall began a public service career when he was appointed Clerk of New York City's First District Municipal Court.
- He was appointed a member of the New York City Board of Education on January 1, 1918, and served until December 31, 1921, and was elected the board's president.
- He was New York City's commissioner of taxes and assessment from 1922 to 1923. He was a delegate to the 1924 Democratic National Convention and was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-eighth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Daniel J.
- Riordan.
- He was reelected to the sixty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from November 6, 1923, to January 3, 1935.
- He was not a candidate for renomination in 1934. Prall served as a member and chairman of the Federal Communications Commission from January 15, 1935, until his death in 1937 at his summer home in Boothbay Harbor, Maine.
- He is interred at Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp, Staten Island. Intermediate school (I.S.) 27 on Staten Island is also known as the Anning S.
- Prall School.
- He also served as Chairman of the FCC from March 9, 1935 to June 23, 1937.
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