John Patton (January 6, 1823 – December 23, 1897) was a

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from the

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. He was the father of Charles Emory Patton, also a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1911–1915), and John Patton Jr., a U.S. Senator from

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(1894–1895), and the uncle of

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, also a U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania (1923–1927). Patton was born in

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and moved to

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in 1828. He attended the public schools and engaged in mercantile pursuits and lumbering 1844-1860. He organized the First National Bank of Curwensville in 1864 and was elected its president. He then organized the Curwensville Bank, and was elected its president. He was a delegate to the Whig

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and to the Republican National Convention in

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. Patton was elected as a

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to the Thirty-seventh Congress, serving from March 4, 1861 to March 3, 1863. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1862. He was again elected to the

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, serving from March 4, 1887 to March 3, 1889. He was not a candidate for renomination in

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, after which he resumed banking. Patton died in

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, aged 74, where he had gone for medical treatment, and was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery, in

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Patton, John 1823 births 1897 deaths People from Tioga County, Pennsylvania American bankers Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American businesspeople