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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaJohn James PATTERSON
(1830-1912)
Senate Years of Service:
1873-1879Party: RepublicanPATTERSON, John James, a
Senator from South Carolina; born in Waterloo, Juniata County, Pa.,
August 8, 1830; attended the common schools and graduated from
Jefferson College, Canonsburg, Pa., in 1848; engaged in newspaper
work; publisher of the Juniata Sentinel in 1852 and became editor
and part owner of the Harrisburg Telegraph in 1853; engaged in
banking; member, State house of representatives 1854-1856; during
the Civil War served in the Union Army as a captain in the
Fifteenth United States Volunteer Infantry; unsuccessful candidate
for election in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress; engaged in
banking 1863-1869; moved to Columbia, S.C., in 1869 and engaged in
railroad construction; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate from South Carolina and served from March 4, 1873, to March
3, 1879; was not a candidate for reelection to the Senate;
chairman, Committee on Education and Labor (Forty-fourth Congress),
Committee on Territories (Forty-fifth Congress); resided in
Washington, D.C., and engaged in various financial enterprises;
moved to Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa., in 1886; engaged in the
construction of electric railways and electric lighting plants;
died in Mifflintown, Pa., September 28, 1912; interment in
Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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