George W. Patterson

George Washington Patterson ( born November 11, 1799 in Londonderry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, † October 15, 1879 in Westfield, New York ) was an American politician. He represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives and was its vice- governor.

George Patterson received his degree at the Pinkerton Academy in Derry. He then moved to New York, where he first settled in 1818 in Genesee County and earned his money with the production of cereals swing. From 1825 he lived in Leicester, where he was engaged in farming and also some public offices held, including the Justice of the Peace.

1832 Patterson moved as a representative of Livingston County for the first time in the New York State Assembly a, of which he was also in 1833 and 1835 to 1840. He was in the years 1839 and 1840, Speaker of the Parliament chamber; at that time he was a member of the Whigs. In 1841 he moved to Westfield, where he worked for the General Land Office, based in Chautauqua. In 1846 he took part in the Constitutional Convention of New York, before he was from 1849 to 1850 as Vice- Governor of the State under Governor Hamilton Fish.

In the following years, Patterson has held several offices at the municipal level. He was 1855-1857 President of the Commission of New York Harbor and 1859 quarantine officer at the port of New York in 1859. Moreover, he was the local Board of Education for several years as president before. 1856 and 1860 he took after he had joined the Republicans, in each case as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in part. Finally, he was still elected at an advanced age in the Congress, where he remained as a representative of the 33rd Congressional District of New York on 4 March 1877 to March 3, 1879. In the same year George Patterson died in Westfield.

His older brother William and his nephew Augustus Frank also sat for the state of New York in the House of Representatives.