John J. Patterson

John J. Patterson

John James Patterson (August 8, 1830 - September 28, 1912) was a businessman and United States Senator from South Carolina. Born in Waterloo, Pennsylvania, he grew up there and attended the public schools, and then attended Jefferson College in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. During the 1850s he engaged in newspaper and banking businesses in Pennsylvania; he was publisher of the "Juniata Sentinel" in 1852 and became editor and part owner of the "Harrisburg Telegraph" in 1853. He first entered politics in 1854 when he was elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, in which he served until 1856.

In 1861, when the Civil War began, he joined the United States Army and served as a captain in the Fifteenth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Meanwhile, he ran for a seat in the United States House of Representatives in 1862, but was unsuccessful.

After the war Patterson moved to Columbia, South Carolina and engaged in railroad construction. He again entered politics and in 1873 was elected by the South Carolina Legislature to the U.S. Senate as a Republican. He was criticized by many in South Carolina for being a carpetbagger. Patterson was the chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor from 1875 to 1877 and a member of the committee on territories from 1877 to 1879. By the time his term ended in 1879, Reconstruction had ended and the Democrats had taken nearly all power in South Carolina, so Patterson had no hope of reelection. He continued to live in Washington, D.C. after leaving the Senate and engaged in financial enterprises.

In 1886 he moved to Mifflintown, Pennsylvania where he lived until his death. He continued to be active in business, particularly in running a company that installed electric lightbulbs. He is buried in the Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery.

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