George Robert Patterson

Who was George Robert Patterson?

George Robert Patterson was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

George R. Patterson was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania. He attended the Lewistown Academy, and was engaged in mercantile pursuits in 1880. He moved to Ashland, Pennsylvania, in 1886 and engaged in the wholesale grain and feed business. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1900 and 1904.

Patterson was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh, Fifty-eighth, and Fifty-ninth Congresses and served until his death in Washington, D.C. Interment in Citizens’ Cemetery in Ashland.