George Robert Patterson

George Robert Patterson ( born November 9, 1863 in Lewistown, Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, † March 21, 1906 in Washington DC ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1906 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Patterson attended the common schools and the Lewistown Academy. Since 1880 he worked in retail. In 1886 he moved to Ashland, where he acted with grains and seeds. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1900 and 1904, he participated as a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions, to which William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt were later nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1900, Patterson was elected in the 13th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of James Wilfrid Ryan on March 4, 1901. After two re- elections he could remain until his death on March 21, 1906 in Congress. Since 1903, he represented the twelfth district of his state.