David T. Patterson

David T. Patterson

David Trotter Patterson (born February 28, 1818 in Greeneville , Tennessee , † November 3, 1891 ibid) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . From 1866 to 1869 he sat for the US state of Tennessee in the US Senate .

biography

Patterson was born in Greeneville, where he grew up and attended school. He then read law at Greenville College to later be admitted to the bar. In 1841 he was finally admitted and from then on worked in his own law firm in his hometown. He also ran an industrial company. From 1854 to 1863 he was a judge on the First Circuit Court , a court in the state of Tennessee. At the same time he was active as an industrialist and achieved considerable wealth.

In 1855 he married Martha Johnson, daughter of the future US President Andrew Johnson .

After the Civil War , Tennessee was the first of the Confederate States to be accepted back into the Union on July 24, 1866 . On the same day, Patterson was elected to the US Senate by the Tennessee General Assembly . On July 28, he began his mandate in Washington, DC . In 1868 an impeachment was initiated against his father-in-law, the US President . Most of the time during the trial, Patterson did not attend Senate sessions because he wanted to avoid a mix of private and political. He himself thought his father-in-law was innocent. On March 4, 1869, his tenure as senator expired, he did not run for re-election. So he resigned from Congress that day, and his father-in-law resigned from the office of President on the same day.

Patterson retired to Tennessee and was now active as a large landowner and farmer. He died on November 3, 1891 in his hometown and was buried in Andrew Johnson National Cemetery , as was his wife's entire family.

Web links

• David T. Patterson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• David T. Patterson in the database of Find a Grave (English)