Pratt practiced plural marriage. He was murdered in 1857 by the estranged husband of his twelfth wife. Pratt fathered thirty children. His living descendants in 2011 were estimated to number 30,000 to 50,000.
He is the great-great-grandfather of Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican candidate for President of the United States, and the great-great-great-grandfather ofJon Huntsman Jr., diplomat and former Governor of Utah, who is currently serving as the U.S. Ambassador to Russia.
Not sure if this is a good or bad thing. Huntsman..... hmmmmm. Why is that name so familiar? Of course he ran for President. But I found this....On August 6, 2019, Huntsman submitted his resignation letter to President Donald Trump as Ambassador of the United States to Russia, effective October 3, 2019.
Deputy U.S. Trade Representative under George W. Bush, he launched global trade negotiations in Doha in 2001 and guided the accession of China into the World Trade Organization.
He also served as CEO of his family-owned Huntsman Corporation and chair of the Huntsman Cancer Foundation. In 2009, he was appointed United States Ambassador to China by Barack Obama.
Me thinks this guy needs to be dug into more.
Just dropping this here.