Background
Born in Henniker, Merrimack County, New Hampshire, he was the son of William and Frances M. Shepard Patterson.
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Education
Patterson pursued classical studies, graduated from Dartmouth College in 1848, and was principal of the Woodstock Academy in Connecticut for two years. He attended the Theological Seminary at New Haven, Connecticut, where he studied law.
Career
Patterson was a professor of mathematics, astronomy, and meteorology at Dartmouth College from 1854 to 1865. Elected as a Republican to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses Patterson was a United States Representative for the third district of New Hampshire from (March 4, 1863 - March 3, 1867). He was elected to the United States. Senate and served from March 4, 1867, to March 3, 1873.
He was State superintendent of public instruction from 1881 to 1893, and president of American Institute of Instruction.
Patterson died in Hanover, Grafton County, New Hampshire, on May 4, 1893 (age 69 years, 306 days). He is interred at Dartmouth College Cemetery, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Membership
Patterson was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1862. In the Senate he was chairman of the Committee on Enrolled Bills during the Forty-first Congress and a member of the Committee on the District of Columbia during the Forty-first and Forty-second Congresses. Patterson was a regent of the Smithsonian Institution and in 1877-1878 was again a member of the State house of representatives.
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Nationality
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Political Party
Republican party