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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 the capital city of [[Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]]. Remmel 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. In 1954, Remmel was the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat ]] [[Orval E. 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.

'''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 the capital city of [[Little Rock]], [[Arkansas]]. Remmel 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.  

 

==Family, education, military==

In 1954, Remmel was the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial candidate against the [[Democratic Party|Democrat ]] [[Orval E. 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.

 

==Background==

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 "H. " Remmel (1852–1927), 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.[1]  

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 "H. " Remmel (1852–1927), 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.[1]