Edward White Patterson

Edward White Patterson (born October 4, 1895 in Pittsburg , Crawford County , Kansas , † March 6, 1940 in Weir , Kansas) was an American politician . Between 1935 and 1939 he represented the third constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Patterson attended public schools in his home country. During the First World War he was used as a sergeant in the US Army in France . On his return he studied at the University of Chicago . After a subsequent law degree at the law school of the University of Kansas at Lawrence and his admission as a lawyer in 1922, he began to work in Pittsburg in his new profession.

Patterson was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1926 and 1928 he was a district attorney in Crawford County. In 1934 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the Third District of Kansas . There he took over from Harold C. McGugin of the Republican Party on January 3, 1935 . He had beaten this one in the election. After a re-election in 1936, he was able to complete two terms in Congress until January 3, 1939 .

In the 1938 election, Patterson was defeated by Republican Thomas Daniel Winter . Then he worked as a lawyer again. Edward Patterson died on March 6, 1940 in Weir and was buried in his hometown of Pittsburg.

Web links

• Edward White Patterson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Edward White Patterson in the database of Find a Grave (English)