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John Denniston Patton (November 28, 1829 – February 22, 1904) was a
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from the
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of
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. Patton was born in
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and attended public school there. He worked in a tannery for several years and then engaged in mercantile pursuits in his hometown. He was elected as a
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to the forty-eighth Congress, serving from March 4, 1883 to March 3, 1885. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1884, after which he retired from public life. Patton died in Indiana, Pennsylvania and was interred in Oakland Cemetery there.


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1829 births 1904 deaths Patton, John D. Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania Burials in Pennsylvania 19th-century American legislators {{Pennsylvania-Representative-stub