Edward White Patterson

Edward White Patterson ( born October 4, 1895 in Pittsburg, Crawford County, Kansas; † March 6, 1940 in Weir, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1935 and 1939 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edward Patterson attended the public schools of his home. During the First World War he served as a sergeant in the U.S. Army in France. After his return, he studied at the University of Chicago. After a subsequent law studies at the Law Faculty of the University of Kansas in Lawrence and its made ​​in 1922 admitted to the bar he began in Pittsburg to work in his new profession.

Patterson was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1926 and 1928 he was district attorney in Crawford County. In 1934 he was in the third district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he came into effect on January 3, 1935 the successor to Harold C. McGugin of the Republican Party. This he had defeated in the election. After a re-election in 1936 he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1939 two legislative sessions.

In the 1938 elections Patterson defeated by Republican Thomas Daniel Winter. He then worked as a lawyer again. Edward Patterson died on March 6, 1940 in Weir, and was buried in his hometown of Pittsburgh.

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