Thomas G. Patten

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 New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Gedney Patten was born and raised in New York City during the Civil War . He attended Mount Pleasant Academy in Ossining , Columbia College in New York City between 1877 and 1879, and Columbia Law School between 1880 and 1882 . He then worked in the shipping business and subsequently operated a fleet of tugs in the 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 1910 congressional election for the 62nd Congress , Patten was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 15th constituency of New York , where he succeeded Jacob Van Vechten Olcott on March 4, 1911 . In 1912 he ran for the 63rd Congress in the 18th electoral district of New York . After a successful election, he succeeded Steven Beckwith Ayres on March 4, 1913 . He was re-elected once. In his renewed candidacy in 1916 he was defeated and withdrew from the after March 3, 1917 Congress of.

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

Web links

• Thomas G. Patten in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas G. Patten in the database of Find a Grave (English)