John Patton
U.S. Congressperson
1823 – 1897
Who was John Patton?
John Patton was a U.S. Representative from the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. He was the father of Charles Emory Patton, also a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, and John Patton Jr., a U.S. Senator from Michigan, and the uncle of William Irvin Swoope, also a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania.
Patton was born in Covington Township, Tioga County, Pennsylvania and moved to Curwensville, Pennsylvania in 1828. He attended the public schools and engaged in mercantile pursuits and lumbering 1844-1860.
He organized the First National Bank of Curwensville in 1864 and was elected its president. He the organized the Curwensville Bank, and was elected its president.
He was a delegate to the Whig National Convention in 1852 and to the National Convention in 1860.
Patton was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1863. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1862. He was again elected to the Fiftieth Congress, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1889. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1888, after which he resumed banking.
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- Born
- Jan 6, 1823
Pennsylvania - Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Lived in
- Pennsylvania
- Died
- Dec 23, 1897
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on July 23, 2013
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