Donn Piatt

Donn Piatt
Donn Piatt between 1865 and 1880
Born	June 29, 1819  Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Died	November 12, 1891  (aged 72) Mac-o-chee, near West Liberty, Ohio, U.S.
Family	Abram S. Piatt
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Donn Piatt (June 29, 1819 – November 12, 1891) was an American journalist, military officer, and public official. Born in Cincinnati, Piatt attended schools in Ohio and began contributing to newspapers as a young man. He started his career as a lawyer and was briefly a judge in the early 1850s. He represented the United States as a diplomat in Paris for about a year starting in 1854.

Piatt served as an officer in the Union Army in the American Civil War from 1861 to 1864. After the war, he held a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives for a single term. He then moved east—first to New York, then to Washington, D.C. He began a journalism career in Washington, founding a newspaper and contributing to others. After retiring from journalism around 1880, Piatt returned to Ohio and wrote works of fiction and plays.