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George Robert Patterson (November 9, 1863 – March 21, 1906) was an American businessman and politician who served three terms as a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania from 1901 until his death in 1906.

Biography

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.

Convention delegate

He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1900 and 1904.

Congress

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. on March 21, 1906.

Interment in Citizens’ Cemetery in Ashland.

See also

• List of United States Congress members who died in office (1900–49)

Sources

• United States Congress. "George R. Patterson (id: P000115)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• The Political Graveyard
• George Robert Patterson, Late a Representative from Pennsylvania. 1907 U.S. Government Printing Office