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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriRoscoe Conkling PATTERSON
(1876-1954)
Senate Years of Service:
1929-1935Party: RepublicanPATTERSON, Roscoe
Conkling, a Representative and a Senator from Missouri; born
in Springfield, Greene County, Mo., September 15, 1876; attended
public and private schools, Drury College, Springfield, Mo., and
the University of Missouri at Columbia; graduated from the law
department of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo., in 1897;
admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in
Springfield, Mo.; prosecuting attorney of Greene County, Mo.,
1903-1907; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-seventh Congress
(March 4, 1921-March 3, 1923); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1922 to the Sixty-eighth Congress; resumed the
practice of law in Springfield, Mo.; presidential elector on the
Republican ticket in 1924; moved to Kansas City, Mo., in 1925;
United States district attorney for the western district of
Missouri 1925-1929, when he resigned; elected as a Republican to
the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1929, to January
3, 1935; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1934; chairman,
Committee on Mines and Mining (Seventy-second Congress); resumed
the practice of law in Springfield, Mo.; member of the Missouri
Appellate Judicial Commission; died in Springfield, Mo., October
22, 1954; interment in Maple Park Cemetery, southeast of the
city.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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