Roscoe C. Patterson

Who was Roscoe C. Patterson?

Roscoe Conkling Patterson was a United States Representative and Senator from Missouri.

Born in Springfield, Missouri, he attended public and private schools, Drury College, and the University of Missouri in Columbia. He graduated from the law department of Washington University in 1897, was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Springfield. He was prosecuting attorney of Greene County from 1903 to 1907, and was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress, serving from March 4, 1921 to March 4, 1923. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress and resumed the practice of law in Springfield.

He was a presidential elector on the Republican ticket in 1924, and in 1925 he moved to Kansas City, Missouri. From 1925 to 1929 he was United States district attorney for the western district of Missouri; he resigned in 1929 and was elected to the U.S. Senate, serving from March 4, 1929, to January 3, 1935. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in the 1934 election. He was defeated by Harry S. Truman, who later became President of the United States.