Thomas G. Patten

Thomas Gedney Patten ( born September 12, 1861 in New York City; † February 23, 1939 in Hollywood, California ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1917 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Gedney Patten was born during the Civil War in New York City and grew up there. He attended the Mount Pleasant Academy, Ossining, 1877-1879, the Columbia College in New York City and 1880-1882, the Columbia Law School. After that he worked in the shipping business and operational in the sequence a fleet of tugboats in New York Harbor. He was president of the New York & Long Branch Steamboat Co. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1910 for the 62nd Congress Patten was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jacob Van Vechten Olcott on 4 March 1911. In 1912 he was a candidate in the 18th Election District of New York for the 63rd Congress. After a successful election, he entered on March 4, 1913, the successor to Steven Beckwith Ayres. He was re-elected once. In his renewed candidacy in 1916, he suffered a defeat and retired after March 3, 1917 the Congress of.

Between 1917 and 1921 he was postmaster in New York City. He moved to Hollywood in 1922, where he worked in the personnel of the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc. until his retirement in 1924. On February 23, 1939, he died in Hollywood and was buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.