George Robert Patterson (November 9, 1863 – March 21, 1906) was a
Republican member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they ...
from
Pennsylvania.
George R. Patterson was born in
Lewistown, Pennsylvania. He attended the Lewistown Academy, and was engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1880. He moved to
Ashland, Pennsylvania, in 1886 and engaged in the wholesale grain and feed business. He was a delegate to the
Republican National Convention
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in
1900
As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...
and
1904
Events
January
* January 7 – The distress signal ''CQD'' is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by ''SOS''.
* January 8 – The Blackstone Library is dedicated, marking the beginning of the Chicago Public Library system.
* ...
.
Patterson was elected as a Republican to the
Fifty-seventh,
Fifty-eighth, and
Fifty-ninth Congresses and served until his death in
Washington, D.C. Interment in Citizens’ Cemetery in Ashland.
See also
*
Sources
The Political Graveyard*
George Robert Patterson, Late a Representative from Pennsylvania'. 1907 U.S. Government Printing Office
1863 births
1906 deaths
People from Ashland, Pennsylvania
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American politicians
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