Nat Patton

Nat Patton (* February 26, 1881 at Tadmor, Houston County, Texas, † July 27, 1957 in Crockett, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1945 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nat Patton attended the common schools and the Sam Houston Normal School in Huntsville. Between 1899 and 1918 he worked at various schools as a teacher. In 1915 and 1916 he worked in Houston County in agriculture. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1912 and 1913, Patton sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Texas. After studying law at the University of Texas at Austin and his 1918 was admitted to the bar he began in Crockett to work in this profession. From 1918 to 1922 he served as district judge in Houston County. In 1924 and 1935 he was a delegate to the respective regional democratic party days in Texas. From 1929 to 1934 he was a member of the Senate of Texas.

In the congressional elections of 1934, Patton was in the seventh election district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Clark W. Thompson on 3 January 1935. After four elections he could pass in Congress until January 3, 1945 five legislative sessions. During his time in Congress, most of the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War was marked.

1944 Patton was not nominated by his party for re-election. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on July 27, 1957 in Crockett, where he was also buried.