Lee Hawse Patteson (1902–1955) was the wife of former Governor of West Virginia

Okey L. Patteson Okey Leonidas Patteson (September 14, 1898July 3, 1989) was the 23rd Governor of West Virginia from 1949 to 1953. He was a member of the United States Democratic Party and of the "machine" that totally controlled politics in that era in the sta ...

and served as that state's

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, 1949-1953. She was born May 28, 1902, at Romney, West Virginia. She married

in 1923. As first lady, she entertained guests and began the tradition of decorating the trees around the West Virginia Governor's Mansion for the holidays. She also obtained a

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while serving as first lady. She died in Mt. Hope, West Virginia, on August 2, 1955."West Virginia's First Ladies," West Virginia Division of Culture and History, June 2007.

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