Edward White Patterson (October 4, 1895 – March 6, 1940) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas from 1935 to 1939.

Background

Born in

Pittsburg, Kansas Pittsburg is a city in Crawford County, Kansas, United States, located in southeast Kansas near the Missouri state border. It is the most populous city in Crawford County and southeast Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the ci ...

, Patterson attended local public schools. During the First World War, he served as a sergeant in the 35th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, from May 1917 to March 1919. After the war, he attended the University of Chicago at Chicago, Illinois. He graduated from the law department of the

University of Kansas at Lawrence The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, and several satellite campuses, research and educational centers, medical centers, and classes across the state of Kansas. Tw ...

in 1922, and was admitted to the bar the same year, commencing practice in

. He served as prosecuting attorney of

Crawford County, Kansas Crawford County (county code CR) is a county located in Southeast Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 38,972. Its county seat is Girard, and its most populous city is Pittsburg. The county was named in honor of Samuel J ...

from 1926 to 1928.

Congress

Patterson was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (January 3, 1935 – January 3, 1939). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress. He resumed the practice of law in

, until his death in Weir, Kansas on March 6, 1940. He was buried in Highland Park Cemetery,

References

1895 births 1940 deaths United States Army soldiers University of Kansas School of Law alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas 20th-century American legislators People from Pittsburg, Kansas {{Kansas-politician-stub