Background
John Patterson (half brother of Pennsylvania congressman Thomas Patterson) was born in Little Britain Township, Pennsylvania.
John Patterson (half brother of Pennsylvania congressman Thomas Patterson) was born in Little Britain Township, Pennsylvania.
He attended the common schools, and moved to Saint Clairsville, Ohio.
He engaged in mercantile pursuits and served as the first mayor of Saint Clairsville in 1807 and 1808. He served in the Ohio State Senate from 1815 to 1818. He was associate judge of the court of common pleas of Belmont County, Ohio, from February 1810 to February 1815.
Ohio Presidential elector in 1816 for James Monroe.
He was elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress. He was engaged in the hardware business and in agricultural pursuits.
He died in Saint Clairsville in 1848. Interment in Union Cemetery.
He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives in 1807 and 1808.