Donn Piatt 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.
- Occupation
- journalist, writer, politician, jurist
- Position held
- Ohio state representative
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- 1819, June 29, 1819
- Died
- 1891, November 12, 1891
