- Edward White Patterson
Edward White Patterson (
October 4 ,1895 -March 6 ,1940 ) was a U.S. Representative fromKansas .Background
Born in
Pittsburg, Kansas , Patterson attended the public schools.During the First World War, he served as a sergeant in the 35th Division, American Expeditionary Forces, from May 1917 to March 1919. After the war, he attended the
University of Chicago atChicago, Illinois . He graduated from the law department of theUniversity of Kansas at Lawrence in 1922, and was admitted to the bar the same year, commencing practice inPittsburg, Kansas .He served as prosecuting attorney of
Crawford County, Kansas from 1926 to 1928.Congress
Patterson was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fourth and Seventy-fifth Congresses (
January 3 ,1935 -January 3 ,1939 ). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1938 to the Seventy-sixth Congress.He resumed the practice of law inPittsburg, Kansas , until his death inWeir, Kansas ,March 6 ,1940 . He was buried in Highland Park Cemetery,Pittsburg, Kansas .References
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