Wallace Everette Pratt (1885–1981) was a pioneer American petroleum geologist. When he started his position at Standard Oil in 1937, the company named one of their tankers after him, the SS Wallace E Pratt. He is also notable for helping establish Guadalupe Mountains National Park of West Texas and Eddy County, New Mexico through his donation of McKittrick Canyon in Salt Flat, Texas.[1] He is also notable for his marriage to suffragist Iris Calderhead. In Guadalupe Mountains National Park, they had constructed the Wallace E. Pratt House, the Ship on the Desert, which resembled an oil tanker.
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