John Patton (1823–97)

John Patton ( born January 6, 1823 in Covington, Tioga County, Pennsylvania, † December 23, 1897 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1861 and 1863, and again from 1887 to 1889, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Patton attended the public schools in Curwensville, where he lived since 1828. He then worked in retail. Between 1844 and 1860 he also worked in the timber industry. Then he went into the banking industry. In 1864 he co-founded the First National Bank of Curwensville, whose president he became. Politically, Patton joined the first Whig to party. In June 1852 he took part in the national convention as a delegate. After the dissolution of the Whigs, he was a member of the Republican Party, founded in 1854. In May 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, was nominated on the Abraham Lincoln as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1860, Patton was in the 24th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Chapin Hall on March 4, 1861. Since he resigned in 1862 to further candidacy, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress, which was shaped by the events of the Civil War until March 3, 1863. Then he continued his earlier activities in the banking industry.

Patton was in 1886 re-elected in the elections of the year in the 20th district of his state in Congress, where he could spend another legislative period between March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1889. In 1888 he renounced a new Congress candidacy. Then he was again active in the banking industry. He died on December 23, 1897 in Philadelphia, where he had gone for medical treatment. John Patton was the father of Congressman Charles Emory Patton (1859-1937) and U.S. Senator John Patton (1850-1907) and the uncle of Congressman William Irvin Swoope ( 1862-1930 ).