Ellis E. Patterson

Ellis Ellwood Patterson ( born November 28, 1897 in Yuba City, California, † August 25 1985 in Los Angeles, California ) was an American politician. Between 1945 and 1947 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ellis Patterson attended the public schools of his home. During the First World War he served in the years 1917 and 1918 in the U.S. Navy. Then he studied until 1921 at the University of California at Berkeley. In the following years he worked in the teaching profession. Between 1922 and 1924 he was a teacher in Colusa County. Thereafter he served until 1932 as a school board in Monterey County. After studying law at Stanford University and the University of California and his 1937 was admitted as a lawyer, he started in Sacramento and Los Angeles to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party a political career. From 1932 to 1938 Patterson of the California State Assembly belonged to. After that, he was 1938-1942 Lieutenant Governor of California.

In the congressional elections of 1944, Patterson was in the 16th electoral district of California in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the meantime resigned Will Rogers on January 3, 1945. Since he resigned in 1946 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1947. During this time, ended the Second World War.

1946 Ellis Patterson sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for election to the U.S. Senate. Two years later, he tried to be re-elected to Congress in vain. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on August 25, 1985 in Los Angeles.